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Dates: during 1930-1939
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The body bones are badly crushed and the back of the skull is bashed in, but the skull is otherwise in excellent shape, the jaws and teeth almost complete. Said Dr. Hrdlicka: "We had been hoping, but hardly daring to hope, for some such discovery, and now this young Soviet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Precious Child | 7/17/1939 | See Source »

Butadiene rubber itself is not new. It is the same in composition as the noisily touted German synthetic rubber called "Buna." But the German product is made from acetylene (a product of limestone and coal) in five complicated stages and its price is around 60? a pound. Inventor Egloff estimates...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Rubber from Butane | 7/17/1939 | See Source »

Tough-minded Javier Bueno was a Socialist who, after the 1934 Republican-Socialist rebellion, was fined 32,000,000 pesetas and sentenced to death for being "ideologically responsible" for the rising. The death sentence was commuted to 30 years' imprisonment, but for good measure some officers of the Foreign...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Last Editions | 7/17/1939 | See Source »

What goes on inside his Amarillo News-Globe office most West Texans already know. He is popular with his 511 employes. He pays his workers well for an oil & cattle town publisher. Each year his employes have owned more and he less of his publishing properties. (His holdings are now...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Panhandle's Friend | 7/17/1939 | See Source »

What some old-line Texas Democrats questioned, however, was the precise color of Mr. Howe's political complexion. His father was a stand-pat Republican. His Atchison Globe is still Republican. Moreover, Texas folk are still quoting a public address Gene Howe made two years ago when, kidding on...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Panhandle's Friend | 7/17/1939 | See Source »

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