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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cinema version of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Lost World, a remote wilderness is peopled with fantastic dinosaurs, purported survivors of the Age of Reptiles (200 million to 60 million years ago). No one believes that such creatures actually live anywhere in the modern world, for one reason because its land areas have been too well explored. But the bottom of the sea has not been explored. Last week ichthyologists scratched their heads in wonder over completely authenticated reports of a fish, caught alive in December 1938, whose kind should have perished 50 million years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Living Fossil | 4/3/1939 | See Source »

After the ceremony a series of celebrations began which even Cleopatra would have found titillating. Three million Egyptians from the hinterland cheered floats of flowers in the streets. Airplanes showered Abdin Palace with rosettes in Egyptian and Iranian colors. Sudan racing camels and Arab stallions crowded the capital's streets. At a reception, each guest received a jewel-encrusted gold box of bonbons (value: $1,000). At night there was a huge banquet at which no liquor flowed (Moslems are dry). The Nile shimmered with reflections of colored fireworks. Later, at another reception for Egyptian royalty and nobles, Fawziya...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EGYPT: Fevered Nuptials | 3/27/1939 | See Source »

...There are now 6,166 registered hospitals in the U. S., as compared to 6,128 a year ago. These hospitals hold more than one million beds. Over 70% of the total in crease in beds was due to expansion of public hospitals, which now total...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: U. S. Hospitals | 3/27/1939 | See Source »

...first time in history," over one million U. S. babies (out of two million) were born in hospitals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: U. S. Hospitals | 3/27/1939 | See Source »

...force them to destroy their own plant beds. If they still play ball with the Trust, their barns are burned. When the Trust strikes back, 2,000 armed growers march into Bardsville, seize the telephone and telegraph offices, lock up police and firemen, burn the brand-new million-dollar Trust warehouses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Tobacco War | 3/27/1939 | See Source »

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