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...occupy these quarters during the quickest available passage across the North Atlantic will, after the maiden voyage, cost $400 one way, $720 round trip. Ten round trips are scheduled for this summer. Arriving at Lakehurst, passengers will pass through Customs, be ferried to Newark by American Airlines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Luftschiff to Lakehurst | 5/11/1936 | See Source »

...traffic arrangement in Harvard Square, which was inaugurated yesterday morning at 10 o'clock, succeeds, it will be a great boost to Einstein's theory that a curved line, keeping to the right, is the quickest distance between two points...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Motorists Survive Change in Harvard Square Rules With Slight Confusion | 4/28/1936 | See Source »

Marshal Badoglio. squinting at his staff maps, knew that no matter how it might pain the House of Lords (see col. 3), a forthright poison gas campaign was the quickest and cheapest way of breaking opposition in a country where every herdsman has a rifle. The gassing began...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR: Hit & Run | 4/13/1936 | See Source »

Three Ways- There are three ways to be a collector. Caring nothing about art, one can buy famed rarities at great prices as the cheapest and quickest method of getting a reputation for culture. One can care so much for pictures that one is willing to go without many necessities in order to buy more & more. One can consider one's collection a sort of private investment, to provide artists with a little money to paint more & better pictures. It was perfectly impossible for shy, unassuming Abby Rockefeller to be any kind of a collector but the last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: 53rd Street Patron | 1/27/1936 | See Source »

...firehorse: "I like newspapers and newspaper people and newspaper standards, and I like newspaper news too, and I'm just foolish enough to say so. . . . I'm proud of being, in a very humble way, a member of the good old newspaper gang-the kindest-hearted, quickest-witted, clearest-eyed, most courageous assemblage of people I have ever had the honor and the good fortune to know...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Annie Laurie | 10/28/1935 | See Source »

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