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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...blowing a gale last week off Brazil's coast. Rain speared down in steel-grey phalanxes. Big, angry combers blew their tops. Battling pluckily through the maelstrom panted the little (248-ton, 36-meter) coastal steamer Itacare. She was out of Sao Salvador on her regular haul to Ilhéos, Bahia. She carried 47 passengers, a crew of 19, was heavily cargoed. Skilfully had young, but seasoned Captain Carlos Oliveira skippered her to within hailing distance of Ilhéos. Another 300 yards would find her in safe harbor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Off Ilheos | 9/4/1939 | See Source »

Although there is no charge during the Freshman year for the use of the vast athletic facilities, Freshmen must take some form of regular exercise three times a week. For the same privilege, upperclassmen must...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Athletic Facilities Open to Freshman | 9/1/1939 | See Source »

...First regular meetings of all courses under the Faculty of Arts and Sciences are held on those days at the hours and places indicated in a notice given to students at registration

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Calendar | 9/1/1939 | See Source »

Hugh Drum found his First Army (one of the four field armies into which the Regular Army and National Guard are divided) short of combat strength by 246,000 men, 3,063 machine guns, 348 howitzers, 180 field guns. What the U. S. needs, said he, is not its traditional, skeleton Army, to be expanded after war is declared, but "the creation in peacetime of a well-trained, adequately equipped and well-organized fighting force...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: Short Drum | 8/28/1939 | See Source »

...call letters already changed were those of Westinghouse's W8XK, the short-wave partner of Pittsburgh's KDKA. As 8XK, 8XS, then W8XK, this station has been broadcasting since 1921, is perhaps most noted for one of the least-heard radio features in the world-regular Far North news and general program broadcasts in English, French, Icelandic, Danish and Eskimo. The station was originally (as was KDKA) a gimmick in the garage of Westinghouse's Dr. Frank Conrad. The place had so much reverberation that Dr. Conrad pitched a tent inside, over the works-a sort...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: X (for Experimental) | 8/28/1939 | See Source »

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