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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There is but one passenger fatality to every ten million passenger air miles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 25, 1938 | 4/25/1938 | See Source »

Last week the grand total of Japanese losses at Taierchwang was conservatively estimated by neutral foreigners at between 7,000 and 10,000, but the Chinese Generalissimo's headquarters estimated that the Imperial Japanese Government had now massed half-a-million men for the purpose of attempting this week to wipe out their defeats, smash through to Suchow. Best reconstruction from the battlefield of the Taierchwang fighting was sent by Chicago Daily Newsman A. T. Steele: "0verconfidence and contempt for the Chinese army had much to do with the Japanese defeat. The Chinese set a trap with Taierchwang...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR IN CHINA: Inexcusable Blunder | 4/25/1938 | See Source »

Married. Samuel Joachim, 32, Jimmy of the three lunatic Ritz Brothers (One in a Million, Life Begins in College); to Ruth Hilliard, 21, radio and night club singer, screen actress; in Manhattan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Apr. 25, 1938 | 4/25/1938 | See Source »

...trustee." Reason Guaranty is acting now, though it never did so while the Vans were in power, says Mr. Potter, is because for the first time there is a deadlock in the Chesapeake board, continuance of which might damage C. & O. Also, says Mr. Potter, more than a million in cash dividends of Chesapeake Corp. has piled in the Guaranty's vaults and it wants to release the money...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Babes & Wolves | 4/25/1938 | See Source »

...smart young man tried that not so very long ago and is today the assistant production manager to a million-dollar magnate, Dorothy Speare, film writer and novelist, revealed to more than 100 curious who crowded into Sever 11 yesterday afternoon...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FILM WRITER REVEALS WAY TO MOVIE SUCCESS | 4/22/1938 | See Source »

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