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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Spain is a member of the Pan-American Postal Union. Under that international convention U. S. letters carry only 2? postage to South and Central American countries. It costs no more to mail a letter from Duluth, Minn, to Punta Arenas. Chile, near Cape Horn than it does from Nogales, Ariz, across the street to Nogales, Mexico. Only South American exceptions to the 2? rate are Dutch and French Guiana, which, as non-members of -the Pan-American Postal Union, require 5? postage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Postage Upping | 8/31/1931 | See Source »

University of Minnesota (Minneapolis, Minn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Kudos Jun. 22, 1931 | 6/22/1931 | See Source »

...time out of Fargo, N. Dak. one stormy afternoon last week pulled the Empire Builder, Great Northern Railway's crack Seattle-to-Chicago limited train. It flashed across the State line, roared through Moorhead, Minn., headed for St. Paul across the prairie at 50 m.p.h. At the throttle was Engineer B. E. McKee. Behind him in the string of eleven Pullmans were 119 passengers, reading, napping, playing bridge. Beyond Moorhead, Engineer McKee eyed the sky apprehensively. It was turning black, blacker. It was shot through with greenish-yellow light. Wind clouds bellied down to earth. Without hearing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CATASTROPHE: Tornado v. Train | 6/8/1931 | See Source »

...Kidnapped last October by Chinese bandits with some smattering of Western culture, Rev. Bert N. Nelson, Minneapolis, Minn. Lutheran missionary, has been bargaining ever since for his release, communicating with his brother in Shanghai...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Kidnapping Notes | 5/4/1931 | See Source »

...Also kidnapped last October near Loshan in Honan Province was Rev. Kristofer N. Tvedt, a St. Paul Minn. Lutheran missionary, recently ransomed (TIME, April 27). He reached Hankow last week where his wife and six children have been frantic with anxiety for half a year. Broken in health, looking 20 years older and horribly dirty, Mr. Tvedt said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Kidnapping Notes | 5/4/1931 | See Source »

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