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Diamond T: two new (month-old) snub-nosed "cab forward" models, 1½-ton chassis for $775, 2½-ton for $880. Diamond T's 1940 feature: a 100,000 mile or one-year guarantee against mechanical imperfection. Diamond T models range from a $574 1-ton chassis to a 10-ton chassis for $5,000 plus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CARRIERS: Trucks, A.D. 1940 | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

...occasion the Budapesters had with them two guest soloists: athletic William Primrose, world's No. 1 viola player and chief violist of Arturo Toscanini's NBC Orchestra; a small, plump, snub-nosed young woman who booped mightily through the brass coils of a big French horn. When she had finished the horn part of Mozart's Quintet in E Flat Major, with dignity she dumped the saliva from her horn, rose and went home to practice for this week's concert. The young woman's name was Ellen Stone, and playing with such topnotchers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Little Girl Blue | 11/13/1939 | See Source »

...whole, I endorse the economic snub to Germany very strongly," stated J. Kenneth Galbraith, Instructor in Economics and Tutor. "The snub will injure Germany's trade set-up, for her exports to this country are far in advance of her imports, which she has reduced as far as possible...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: J. Kenneth Galbraith Applauds United States' Economic Censure of Germany | 3/23/1939 | See Source »

...kept the spark of in-line design firing, are now ready to go places. Already powered by Allison V-12's is the Army's twin-motored fighter, the Airacuda. More recently, the 1,000-horsepower Allison was built into a modification of the Army's snub-nosed Curtiss P-36. The ship has a speed of 280 miles an hour with a 1,100-horsepower radial. Powered with an Allison engine with 100 less horsepower, the lancelike P37 gained 75 m.p.h...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: i-Line In Line | 1/30/1939 | See Source »

Inside the theatre, lobby and aisles are jammed. Chinchilla arrives to snub ermine and mink. Amid the babel of voices can be heard the high British squeak, languid Southern drawl. Continental roll of rs, marcelled New Yorkese. Down in front, as she has been at nearly every Broadway first night for over 20 years, sits elderly, fragile Mrs. Rita Katzenberg...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: First-Night Fever | 1/30/1939 | See Source »

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