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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Before they retreat from the main German border, the Poles may attempt an offensive into East Prussia where Hitler has soldiers who will "take" Danzig unless kept busy fighting off the Poles from their rear. The Poles are not likely in any case to' attack Danzig via the corridor for that would expose their rear to the main German attack. On a long neck of land called Hel, stretching into the sea near Danzig, the Poles have heavy guns and troops ready to be massacred by the Germans, but only after the guns of Hel have made a shambles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EUROPE: The Geography of Battle | 8/28/1939 | See Source »

...ever-growing class of mind-made diseases famed Neurologist Stanley Cobb of Harvard last week proposed a new member: arthritis. Although the main cause of arthritis is "an x factor, as yet unknown," Dr. Cobb and his associates-reported in the Journal of the American Medical Association that "poverty, grief and family worry" are intimately connected with the swollen knuckles and aching joint mice of rheumatoid arthritis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Psychic Arthritis | 8/28/1939 | See Source »

...Lilienthal before he went back to Washington. Said he: ". . . This would seem to be a good time for the utilities and TVA both to devote all of their energies to the considerable work we each have to do. The TVA now will be able to concentrate upon its main purpose: the development of the Tennessee Valley." Public utilitarians devoutly hoped these words could be taken as a promise of no more Government competition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UTILITIES: Appomattox Court House | 8/28/1939 | See Source »

...Main reason for Chrysler's progress profitwise was one fact: its Dodge unit is the industry's No. i earner (average 1929-37 profit $65 a car) and Dodge sales increased 98.4%-from 54,792 to 108,719 cars-nearly twice as much as Chrysler as a whole...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANUFACTURING: Good News | 8/28/1939 | See Source »

With his new instruments Dr. Millikan hopes to measure not only the amount of cosmic ray radiation in the equatorial zone, but also the main direction from which the rays are coming...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Millikan to Tasmania | 8/28/1939 | See Source »

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