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Last week the ice went out of the Littlefork River in northern Minnesota with a great rush, playing hell with International Lumber Co. Most years it would make little difference to International whether or not the Littlefork rose 26 feet in a few days. It did this spring because for...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Last Drive | 5/10/1937 | See Source »

The colossal efficiency of the steel industry in handling brutal mass begins at its source. From the time iron ore is dug from the mines it scarcely stops moving till it reaches the blast furnaces in Gary or Pittsburgh. Along spurs of no fewer than nine railroads, box cars crawl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Lake Opening | 4/26/1937 | See Source »

Stacked neatly on pianos, mantle pieces and bookshelves in a million U. S. homes last week were increasing piles of cheaply printed books, bought by their owners for a few cents a volume plus coupons clipped from successive editions of their local newspapers. Having gotten rid of 14,000,000...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Battle of Books | 4/12/1937 | See Source »

"The untilled fields and oak forest are rocky and the Italians were forced to build rocky parapets rather than attempt to dig the soil where a spade would not cut, and the horrible effect of shells- from the guns of the 60 tanks that fought with the [Leftist] infantry in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: Chewed Up | 4/5/1937 | See Source »

When well-to-do women invited him to accompany them to Venice at their expense, he was not insulted but accepted gratefully. And when he speaks of a minor operation he had, he says straight out that it was for piles.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fair-haired Boy | 3/29/1937 | See Source »

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