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...Retract or-or by Golly and by Jiminy I won't let you write my next play...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 4, 1939 | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

...this gossip the Berlin radio retorted specifically, invited skeptics to telephone Willy Messerschmitt at his Augsburg home. One reporter who did so was Beach Conger, correspondent for the New York Herald Tribune, whom the Nazis squeezed out of Berlin last fortnight because he would not retract a dispatch picturing Adolf Hitler and his High Command at odds about invading The Netherlands. Mr. Conger and a British reporter named Geoffrey Cox telephoned Willy Messerschmitt from Amsterdam. The man who answered insisted he was the famed planemaker. "I haven't been out of Germany since the war started," he said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IN THE AIR: Importance of Being Willy | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

Latest communications from John C. Baker '42, who joined the French Foreign Legion early this fall, indicate that he will soon be placed with the American Division in the Maginot line. In the meantime, he said, he is spending most of his time "having the newspapers retract false statements about...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD STUDENT IN FRANCE WILL SOON FIGHT ON FRONT | 11/7/1939 | See Source »

...make France's war news exciting if any Frenchman was going to. But French official war communiques, while a little newsier than the British, were as guarded as Devil's Island. It was as though the French were reluctant to make big claims lest they have to retract them later...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Fact & Fiction | 9/18/1939 | See Source »

...eight motors developing 18,400 h. p.; cruising speed a flat 250 m.p.h.; a wing 250 ft. long and triple fuselage accommodating 120 passengers, crew of 16, a dining room for 50, observation deck, cocktail bar, promenade, 70 toilets and a lifeboat. Pontoons serve also as shock absorbers, retract in flight into the hulls of the two main fuselages. The whole ship in stainless steel, by collaboration with Edward G. Budd Manufacturing Co.. costs an unheard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Superseversky | 3/28/1938 | See Source »

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