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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Socialism! We hope the KdF car will even raise the German birth rate by encouraging German families to have four or five children to fill it. ... This very year the first section of the KdF factory, which will have an annual production of 450,000 cars, will have a roof over its head!" Taking his cue from the KdF car, radiorating Minister for Propaganda & Public Enlightenment Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels announced last week that on Sept...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Baby Buggies? | 8/15/1938 | See Source »

...tough to have a name," was a three-year-old, 350-lb. female grizzly bear taken last month from Yellowstone National Park to Pittsburgh's Highland Park Zoo. Early one morning last week, Too Tough, crazed by the sun baking her steel-barred cage, ripped off its wooden roof, lumbered out. When a pedestrian saw her waddle wild-eyed into a public street, the police gave the alarm, closed the park streets to traffic, drove moppets out of the park swimming pool. After a five-hour police search a park workman walked down into an underpass, found the bear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Too Tough | 8/15/1938 | See Source »

...large tent last summer, energetic President Smith started a drive to raise $100,000 for permanent quarters. Glad to get $80,000, the Festival committee commissioned Finnish Architect Eliel Saarinen to design the Shed-a fan-shaped, open-sided building covering an acre and a half, its roof supported by three interior pillars and a colonnade. The Shed's acoustics are so excellent that an orchestral pianissimo can be heard by an overflow audience outside the colonnade. Last week, during the first of this season's six concerts, Miss Smith launched a campaign for $58,000 to curtain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: In Tanglewood Shed | 8/15/1938 | See Source »

...society learned that Sally Clark, 18, younger sister of Mrs John Aspinwall Roosevelt, had walked into Boston's Ritz-Carlton, posed for pictures, then announced that she would this week make her debut not as a socialite but as a professional songstress on the Ritz's roof garden. Salary: $150 the first week, $200 the second, $250 thereafter. "I am not thinking of Hollywood," said she, last week, "I imagine that from time to time I shall see all my friends. But I am most interested in singing to the public...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jul. 25, 1938 | 7/25/1938 | See Source »

...needed for materials. WPA will pay Edward Laning and his three assistants $23.86 a week. He will paint in oil on canvas. When the paintings are pasted up on the panels in about a year the Library will also repair the ceiling, the color of which ran when the roof leaked some 15 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Mr. Stokes and the WPA | 7/18/1938 | See Source »

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