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This is Hearst's third war. For his first war, the Spanish-American War of 1898, he sent Richard Harding Davis, a half dozen other star correspondents to Cuba. A year before the Maine disaster, Hearst is supposed to have wired Artist Frederic Remington: "You furnish the pictures, I'll furnish...
...Typewriterdom's Big Four (Royal, Remington, Underwood, Smith & Corona) expect to cut production of standard machines 25% under the 1941 rate until April 1, thereafter 40%. After March 15 they will make no more noiseless machines at all; and after April 1, no more portables. Furthermore, all portables made from now on will be reserved for Army & Navy...
...TIME was heard was in 1939, in a pre-war world. In a decade of confused and strident changes it dramatized episodes of mankind's disjointed hopes, disgusts and the comedy of the time. Always edited and produced by TIME, although at certain periods co-sponsored by Wrigley, Remington Rand and Servel (Electrolux), it developed a new radio technique since employed by many another radio program. The summer of 1939 ended it as it ended a decade...
...Marksmen Ed Wylie, of New York City, and S. L. Hutcheson, of Greenwich, Conn.: the North American .20-gauge and all-bore skeet championships, respectively; from a field of 114 shooters at the Remington Gun Club, Lordship, Conn. Both broke 100 straight...
...Enemy is Stronger." It was bad from the very beginning. The men of Habe's regiment were soft after months of misdirected idleness. Their gas masks were inadequately sealed over the eyes; they had misfit helmets, tattered shoes, antediluvian weapons (Habe used an 1891, 20-lb. Remington). The first mild night air-raid revealed their cowardice: in an inn, when the lights went on again, steel helmets peeped shamefully from beneath the tables. One of dozens of Habe tab leaux: a shamed, helmeted face, trying to laugh it off, beside the knees of a peasant woman...