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Castellon added to the territory, the Rightist corridor from Teruel to the Mediterranean will be almost doubled in width from 35 to 60 miles (see map). Even more important than a gain of square miles was actual possession of Castellon's harbor, into which munitions and food could be...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Brazen Attack | 6/20/1938 | See Source »

What made this mile-a-minute pace fairly easy was a 15% increase in locomotive efficiency and 15 to 30% reductions in train weight. Head end of the Century on its steam haul was a 96-foot, futuristically jacketed Hudson-type engine. Pulling the Broadway over its more rugged mileage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Famous Flash | 6/20/1938 | See Source »

In President Roosevelt's hands last week lay the power to fill 20 new Federal judgeships, one of the biggest single batches ever.*In the President's files were endorsements for 223 candidates for these vacancies -important political ammunition in an election year. And while the President studied...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JUDICIARY: Oldster Unlaxed | 6/13/1938 | See Source »

In Holiday, Playwright Barry was, it now appears, touching a more delicate nerve centre than anyone could have guessed before Depression. Consequently, all Screenwriter Stewart had to do to make it look as though the play had been written yesterday was to underscore its already plotted class-angles. Thus, Julia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jun. 13, 1938 | 6/13/1938 | See Source »

A large part of U. S. youth today is apathetic, discontented, increasingly prone to look to the Federal Government to do its thinking and planning for it. Three-quarters think the Government should regulate wages and hours, nine out of ten think it should give unemployment relief. Only one in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Youth's Story | 6/6/1938 | See Source »

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