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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Your article about Science Fiction magazines brings to mind a little-considered result of the now famous Orson Welles Martian-menace-hoax broadcast of last fall. Many of the Science Fiction pulps now on sale owe their success to the publicity given the Martians at that time. Martians, you know, are very essential to Science Fiction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 31, 1939 | 7/31/1939 | See Source »

...sale 1,000,000 combination books containing five admission, ten concession tickets. (Price, $3.75; value...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRADE: Customers Wanted | 7/31/1939 | See Source »

...made a member of RFC's board in 1936. From handling RFC loans to needy drainage and irrigation districts he was graduated to manager of RFC's business loan program. On the side he ran Electric Home and Farm Authority (set up to finance the sale of electrical appliances to home owners). One of the most capable members of RFC, his selection was backed both by conservative Jesse Jones and by New Dealing Tommy Corcoran...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOVERNMENT: New Lender | 7/31/1939 | See Source »

...dusky messiah became a human spite fence last summer when Howland Spencer, socialite anti-New Dealer, sold Father Divine his-estate at Krum Elbow, across the river from the Roosevelts' Hyde Park. Last week, in a pet, an embattled woman of Newport, R. I. threatened a similar sale...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Angels Over Newport | 7/24/1939 | See Source »

Recovered to date: $235,000 (including $100,000 insurance policy on Musica-Coster's life). Proceeds from sale of his yacht Carolita...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: New Accounting | 7/24/1939 | See Source »

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