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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...station WIXFW at 7:30 o'clock in the morning, a radio fan may catch the signals sent down to earth by the radiosonde. Because upper air conditions are vital to air pilots, the Observatory has been getting help from the International Ice Patrol, the United States Weather Bureau, M. I. T., the Navy, and the Canadian, British, French, and Danish governments...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Half-Century-Old Laboratory Shows Its Equipment and Weather Records | 5/31/1939 | See Source »

Changes in instruction of third-year students in the Law School, emphasizing instruction in the organization and presentation of legal materials together with increased opportunities for seminar study, will be put into effect this next academic year, Dean James M. Landis announced today...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LAW SCHOOL STUDENTS TO HAVE MORE SEMINARS | 5/31/1939 | See Source »

From Tarzana, Calif, (named after his tree-swinging nature-man) Author Edgar Rice Burroughs issued an ultimatum to all wrestlers, boxers, strongmen, footballers calling themselves Tarzan: " 'Tarzan' is a copyrighted trademark and if these plug-uglies insist upon using it, I'm going to insist on the right to license them and stencil the copyright number on their chests...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, May 29, 1939 | 5/29/1939 | See Source »

Like any other businesslike airline, K. L. M. (Royal Dutch Air Lines) likes to run from city to city by the most direct route. But last week its new special London-Warsaw plane service was routed via Copenhagen, Gdynia and south to the Polish capital, avoided the direct route across Germany...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Detour | 5/29/1939 | See Source »

...went around that Jerome Weidman's two novels, I Can Get It For You Wholesale and What's In It For Me?, were being withdrawn from circulation. The circumstances were unusual. Reviewers had praised them, ranked Weidman with such sourball writers as John O'Hara, James M. Cain, Hemingway. But Weidman's Semitic hero was such a heel that he roused antiSemitism. Author Weidman, and many a reader, regarded his villainous Harry Bogen as a deliberately horrible example. Publishers Simon & Schuster denied the report, announced that they were selling 100 copies a month of the books...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Sourball | 5/29/1939 | See Source »

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