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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sloping up from the narrow Atlantic coastal plain, the Eastern U.S. rears abruptly in the great earth-wrinkles of the Appalachian Highlands, stretching northeast to southwest from New England to Alabama. When early U. S. settlers pushed out from the coast into this rugged region, they built their towns, for purposes of commerce, on the narrow-valleyed rivers which flow east from the Appalachian slopes into the Atlantic, west into the Gulf of Mexico or Great Lakes. Power from these rivers helped make the northern Highlands the great manufacturing region of the U. S., where dwell 28% of the nation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CATASTROPHE: Hell in the Highlands | 3/30/1936 | See Source »

Congratulations on your plain-spoken and strictly TIME-worthy Havelock Ellis article (TIME. March 9). We will stop publishing our sexeducational magazine as useless if you continue along these lines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 23, 1936 | 3/23/1936 | See Source »

More power to TIME for plain, unbiased reporting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 23, 1936 | 3/23/1936 | See Source »

...plain namesake of Brig. General Johnson Hagood of the Confederacy, and Governor of South Carolina one term of two years, about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 23, 1936 | 3/23/1936 | See Source »

Wildly though the Munich throng of 300,000 Germans cheered Adolf Hitler, and plain though it had become that Germany was back on the "Me und Gott" standard of exiled Kaiser Wilhelm, Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin still remained irresolute. Britain's Ambassador to Germany, Sir Eric Phipps, "almost begged" Realmleader Hitler to send a delegation to London unconditionally. Instead the Destiny-guided Realmleader came back with another slap. As his price for sending a delegation to London he asked Britain to get from all nations concerned promises that they will make Adolf Hitler's terms the basis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Germans Preferred | 3/23/1936 | See Source »

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