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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...iron-ore production and 50% of coal-mine output and which listed among its properties 33,000 acres of mines and factories, a 1,200-mile railway system, 14 private ports, 209 electric power stations, numerous cement factories, and tenements housing 60,000 employes' families. His total number of employes rose to 200,000. Fritz Thyssen's personal share of the property was 26%, valued at some...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Daddy's End | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

LONDON--The British Admiralty announced today that three of Germany's six cruisers had been sunk or crippled and that these, together with the sinking of a German submarine and the "suicide" of the pocket battleship Graf Spee, brought to five the number of warships lost by the Germans since last Wednesday...

Author: By United Press, | Title: Over the Wire | 12/19/1939 | See Source »

...rail labor, Congressionally represented by shrewd Senator Burt Wheeler, is conceded Washington's No. 1 lobby. Notorious is its ability to send bills crashing through in the last few days of a session; formidable is its veto of any bill to reduce the number of rail jobs available for its dues-paying members...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CARRIERS: When If Ever a Profit? | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

...Rail management, mostly flabby and bureaucratic, generally opposes any move to cut the number of management jobs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CARRIERS: When If Ever a Profit? | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

After the first game is over, Dudley, which has won and lost an equal number of contests, will oppose Adams, which has lost the only game it has played thus far. Next to face off will be the Leverett and Kirkland teams, neither of which has won a match...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PURITANS MEET DORM TEAM IN HOUSE MEET | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

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