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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Higher compression translates into more efficient operation because it gets greater power punch on less fuel. It also necessitates a stronger and heavier motor to absorb the increased shock. For this reason, and because Diesels have not yet reached the mass production stage, they are costly. A Ford truck gasoline motor, for example, costs about $150, a comparable Diesel about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Big Stuff | 11/21/1938 | See Source »

...Every organized State must have its established church or, as I have expressed it elsewhere, its folklore. That church must embody the fundamental truth and principle which give the State its greatness. At the same time that church must not impose ridiculous unnecessary sacrifices on the great mass of the people. The fact that today the established church of the modern State is legal and economic, promising security for this life rather than for the hereafter, distinguishes us from the Middle Ages...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Plot | 11/21/1938 | See Source »

...before sailing: "I am very glad to do this because I knew her very well and I buried her when she died in Chicago." Last Sunday, by precedent-breaking permission of Eugenic Cardinal Pacelli, Archpriest of St. Peter's Basilica (in charge of beatification ceremonies), Cardinal Mundelein celebrated Mass during rites which gave Mother Cabrini the title "Blessed," entitled her to public veneration at her tomb in Manhattan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Plot | 11/21/1938 | See Source »

...years ago Dr. Gregory Goodwin Pincus of Clark University. Worcester, Mass, fertilized rabbit eggs with chemicals, produced several healthy bunnies. Last week Dr. Stanley Philip Reimann, cancer expert of Philadelphia's Lankenau Hospital Research Institute, announced to the Pathological Society of Philadelphia that he had artificially fertilized a human egg cell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Virgin Birth | 11/21/1938 | See Source »

More popular in England than in the U. S., Hitchcock pictures like The 39 Steps, Secret Agent are often too intricately built and written to appeal to mass audiences. To connoisseurs of spy melodrama, they rate as classics, and play steady revival engagements in Manhattan and London. Hitchcock lives in a walk-up flat in London, spends his weekends gardening at his cottage in Surrey. Now 38, he has been directing English pictures for 14 years, will work in Hollywood for the first time next February when he goes there to make Titanic and Rebecca for David Selznick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Nov. 21, 1938 | 11/21/1938 | See Source »

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