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Dates: during 1930-1939
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¶ Some towns (Juneau, Sitka) are cooler in summer, warmer in winter than St. Louis, Chicago, New York City. Sweden and Finland are in the same latitude as Alaska.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TERRITORIES: Defrosting | 8/28/1939 | See Source »

The 165 resettled relief families still living in the Matanuska Valley project (200 families started out) now make a comfortable living, will do well. Some have made as much as $6,000 each per year.*

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TERRITORIES: Defrosting | 8/28/1939 | See Source »

Month ago, bristling with optimism about the chances of no war, Ham Fish sailed (as leader of the U. S. delegation of four Senators and 24 Representatives) for the annual meeting of the Interparliamentary Union at Oslo (TIME, Sept. 13, 1937). By the time he reached Berlin, he had to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: All This War Talk | 8/28/1939 | See Source »

Overtime is only a figure of speech in Germany these days. Recently Marshal Hermann Goring appointed Efficiency Expert Paul Walther to investigate the coal industry: the men were digging less coal on ten-hour shifts than they had previously dug on eight. Working hours for men have been pushed up...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Seldte's Solicitude | 8/28/1939 | See Source »

Landing in four groups in a bay to the northwest of Hong Kong, 1,000 men swept across the granite-peaked peninsula behind a curtain of bombings, unresisted except by a few peasants, some of whom were armed only with farm implements. The attackers, summarily executing any Chinese so much...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR IN CHINA: Far Eastern Front | 8/28/1939 | See Source »

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