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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...read in the papers of disputes, ever more violent, between Lena Ltd. and the Soviet Government over operating details of the concession. Gradually the rupture grew so wide as to demand arbitration. Thereupon, under Article 90 of the Lena Goldfields Concession Agreement of 1925, the Soviet Government chose a panel of six German professors, and Lena made ready to pick one of these as chairman of the Arbitral Board. When she had looked over all the six professors carefully Lena picked Dr. Stutzer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Millions for Lena? | 9/15/1930 | See Source »

...instrument board and maps were his navigating facilities. The westward flight, as every layman knows, is immeasurably more difficult largely because of prevailing headwinds. The Question Mark, radio equipped, had a 650 h. p. Hispano-Suiza motor and a top speed close to 160 m. p. h. Its instrument panel, with more than 30 dials including the invaluable "artificial horizon," offered practically every known aid to navigation. Yet even with weather conditions unusually good, with tail winds for much of the way, with such crack airmen as Coste & Bellonte at the controls, the Question Mark was forced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Uphill Route | 9/15/1930 | See Source »

...committed and solved in the first chapter. The rest of the book takes up the life-story of each of the twelve jurors in the murder trial, starting with each man's birth and ending with his opening the mailed summons for jury duty. It is a varied panel: an Irish contractor, a Greek restaurant proprietor, a commercial artist, an Italian grocer, the manager of a carburetor factory, a millionaire, a German shopkeeper, a certified public accountant, a garage owner, a Jewish garment-manufacturer, an ex-soldier, a failure. The last chapter tells about the killer, his preposterous motive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Too Much Mustard | 7/14/1930 | See Source »

Then an assistant tripped over a temporary wire connecting a motor generator and a rectifier panel. The wire broke. Swift inspection determined it would take several minutes to repair the break; unless it were repaired nothing could be broadcast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Tingling Task | 2/3/1930 | See Source »

...house-warming while the owner was in Chicago. The decorator, Lee Simonson, theatrical designer, played host, showed the guests a dressing room with racks for 100 shirts, 100 neckties; a fancy barroom reached by an aluminum staircase; a bed to live in, equipped with bookshelves, light switches, radio panel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Feb. 3, 1930 | 2/3/1930 | See Source »

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