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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Navy perfected them, used them to good advantage against Loyalist Spain and even showed the way to British mosquito designers (including famed Racer Hubert Scott-Paine). For the price of a 45,000-ton battleship, the U. S. Navy probably could build 750 mosquitoes, as an experiment plans to order four immediately. On the theory that the U. S. probably will never have to fight a naval war at home, Navy men in Washington last week still discounted the value of mosquitoes. But the idea of a little boat snapping at a big boat intrigues taxpayers and Congressmen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NATIONAL DEFENSE: Small Boats | 4/10/1939 | See Source »

...Forbid NLRB to order set aside an existing contract with one union in favor of another merely because the membership has shifted unions (as has sometimes happened to the Federation's distress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Wagner Charta | 4/10/1939 | See Source »

...Government would then own outright loan stocks which cost it about 8.5? a pound. At that price, the world market would not absorb it. In order to sell it, let the Government offer its cotton to exporters at about 8.5?, pay them a bounty of from 2? to 3? a pound for as much as they can sell abroad. Result: exporters could sell cotton abroad at about 6½? and turn a profit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FARMERS: Big Dump | 4/10/1939 | See Source »

...Manhattan's swank "21," embraced tearfully, dined together, later danced fervidly together at a night club. Next morning Judge Benjamin Scheinman denied Actress Crawford's deposition charging Husband Tone with "extreme cruelty." Said the judge: "The courts in this State look with disfavor on mail-order divorces...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Apr. 10, 1939 | 4/10/1939 | See Source »

...This is the last of a series of articles on the Individual characteristics of the Houses designed to help Freshman in making their choice. The articles are run in the order in which the material has been received...

Author: By A. C. Hanford, | Title: Characteristics of Dunster, Lowell, Winthrop Discussed in House Article | 4/10/1939 | See Source »

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