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...year-old Contralto Kate Smith. For eight successful radio years Kate Smith has used her booming, unschooled voice, plus occasional bursts of hearty Americanism to sell millions of dollars worth of cigars, automobiles, coffee and, since 1937, General Foods cake flour, baking powder and salt. From her paychecks she has tucked away $1,000,000, mostly in Government bonds, but she is still unmarried, lives alone. She has won 15,000,000 weekly listeners, but she can count scarcely a dozen intimate friends...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Kate the Great | 5/15/1939 | See Source »

...tiny, frail glass capsules, a capsule placed inside each lamp, the lamp pumped out and sealed. Then short radio waves are turned on the capsule. It heats up, explodes. The sodium is thus freed inside the lamp and the broken capsule is reduced to a harmless pinch of powder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Lamp Trick | 4/10/1939 | See Source »

PlaceState. Cond. Skiing in. Snow Bartlett, N.H. Fair Good 83 3 new powder Canaan, N.H. Fair Good 20 Cannon Mt. (Tramway) N.H. Snowing Good 105 3 new powder Conway, N.H. Fair Good 32 1 new powder Dartmouth Region, N.H. Fair Good 20 Franoonia Netch, N.H. Snowing Good 60 3 new powder Fryeburg, Me. Fair Good 44 Light Greenfield, Mass. Fair Fair 4 Breakable crust Intervale, N.H. Fair Good 33 3 new powder Jackson, N.H. Fair Good 34 2 new powder Lacenia (Gilford) N.H. Fair Good 27 1 new powder Lancaster, N.H. Cloudy Good 28 4 new powder Lincoln, N.H. Fair...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SKIING CONDITIONS | 3/24/1939 | See Source »

...over 21 years he had had no peace. When he was taken to Joliet Penitentiary to serve 14 months for threatening Banker Forgan, he was in a predicament. In Box No. 198 in the vaults of Chicago's National Safety Deposit Co. he had four black powder gaspipe bombs. He solved his problem momentarily by throwing away the safe deposit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Box No. 198 | 3/20/1939 | See Source »

Northern New England skiing centers reported yesterday that deep powder snow on slopes and trails has provided ideal conditions for winter sports...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Snow Conditions Ideal; Skiers Will Compete in Bear Mountain Event | 3/18/1939 | See Source »

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