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Dates: during 1930-1939
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In 1929 Herminia Peralta Dargie died, her devoted Captain Martin (but not Joe Knowland) at her bedside. To Captain Martin she left ("as I would have done had he been my son") one-half of her residuary estate, the other half going to her sister, Mrs. Josefa Peralta Wilson. Taking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Oakland Case | 8/14/1939 | See Source »

Dr. Hrdlicka has long maintained that the ancestors of American Indians were Mongolians who crossed from Asia to Alaska over a land bridge some 15,000 years ago. That bridge has since crumbled away, leaving only the stepping-stones of the smoky Aleutian Islands. During ten summers Dr. Hrdlicka has...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Indians in Siberia | 8/14/1939 | See Source »

One sunbright afternoon last week Imperial Airways' 24-ton, clean-bodied Caribou cleaved a spuming white wake through Southampton harbor, rose and winged northwest on the first flight of her long-planned transatlantic mail service. Three hours later she put in briefly at the Foynes, Eire marine base, rose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Caribou | 8/14/1939 | See Source »

From canoes to coal barges, Parisians are sentimental about anything that floats on the oily Seine. But best-loved of all their chowchow river traffic were the slim little green-and-white bateaux mouches (fly boats), which took to the water during the 1900 exposition, have since ferried some 42...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Flies' End | 8/14/1939 | See Source »

In a studio perched high above Madison Avenue, Stan Shaw, with an engineer and an assistant, stands watch over two turntables, a microphone, 10,000 records and two telegraph receiving machines. He gets anywhere from 150 to 250 request telegrams each morning. Most come from Manhattan's metropolitan area...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Milkman Stan | 8/14/1939 | See Source »

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