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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Known as "Martin Ocean Transport- Model 156," it is a ship almost 92 ft. long, 12 ft. wide and 24 ft. high. Its great metal hull is suspended beneath a 157-ft. wing span. Stubby sea wings extend 13 ft. from the sides of the hull directly below the main span, contribute to the strength and stability of the whole ship and provide storage space for 4,260 gal. of fuel. In the nose is its anchor hatch, dual flight control station, bridge, navigation and radio rooms. Three passenger compartments and a lounge in the centre of the hull provide...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Russian Sample | 12/6/1937 | See Source »

...last week produced no retort to this other than the findings year and half ago published in the bulletin of the National Association of Wool Manufacturers by Chief Chemist Von Bergen of the Forstmann Woolen Co.-that casein-wool "resembles a highly damaged wool and its main disadvantages are a very low tensile strength and its reaction to acid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Lanital | 12/6/1937 | See Source »

Colonel McEntee's Military History of the World War is a huge volume of 583 large pages, complete with 459 maps, charts and time schedules of battles. Its main contribution is its pictorial demonstrations of both original plans for battles and step-by-step diagrams of the way they worked out. Thus Colonel McEntee exhaustively describes the original von Schlieffen Plan that called for invasion of Belgium, uses nine maps to show what happened when the Marne was reached and changes in the Plan had weakened the German forces. Relying heavily on official reports. Colonel McEntee writes uncritically, only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mars v. Militarism | 12/6/1937 | See Source »

Between frequent pauses to autograph copies of his latest work, "The Book of Marvels", in a meek off the crowded main floor of Jordan Marsh's Halliburton amplified his statement. "You don't have to be so crazy you throw things. But I don't even drink. Perhaps it's a result of my four years at Princeton...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Adventurer Halliburton Bewails His Sanity as Barrier to True Eminence | 12/6/1937 | See Source »

Moreover, research is highly favored in the University's own policy. But the main drawback to such a plan is the danger that it might deteriorate into just another laboratory, turning out endless graphs and abstract curves which will make little impression on journalists trained to look for concrete evidence. Compared to the possibilities mentioned thus far, however, this alternative seems to be more plausible for Harvards' purpose...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE NIEMAN BEQUEST: QUO VADIT? | 12/1/1937 | See Source »

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