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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have outlawed the distillation, sale and consumption of liquor in numerous small experimental areas. In other places bars and liquor shops have been closed on pay days, thus making it more likely that the Hindu workman will get home with his salary before spending it on coconut toddy, a sort of ancient moonshine which is his favorite cheap drink...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Noble Experiment | 2/27/1939 | See Source »

Said dogged Shreck. "I just kept going." Said his wife: "It's wonderful." Said an airport friend of the flying weatherman, as a sort of explanation for Pilot Shreck's escape rather than a comment on his fix: "He never drinks or smokes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Shreck's Fix | 2/27/1939 | See Source »

...York City's Missing Persons Bureau always take a second look when they pass a girl with soiled and sagging hose. The odds are that she is a runaway, homeless in the big city. Last year the Missing Persons Bureau, which does the biggest job of its sort, located all but 25 of the 2,059 local missing girls reported to it. Most of them turned up at employment and charity agencies, but an appreciable few went home in response to the Bureau's famed daily five minutes of missing persons alarms over "New York City...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Why Girls Leave Home | 2/27/1939 | See Source »

...folk art may be of another sort, it may be a product consciously created by an individual artist which is seized by the public as a whole and thus made a part of the life of the time. It is into this category that the art of Walt Disney falls, and to him goes the honor of developing the first national folk art since the founding of America. Strangely enough, industry and mechanics, which are the death warrant of spontaneous public art, are the spark of life of this second type of folk art. And even more strange...

Author: By H. C., | Title: Collections & Critiques | 2/25/1939 | See Source »

Feild explained with the aid of over 100 color slides, mostly from the experimental "Sorcerer's Apprentice," the coordination of music, color, and composition involved in the creation of a Disney feature. He particularly stressed the importance of the "exposure sheet," a sort of master chart of a production...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NO ROOM FOR LARGE OVERFLOW AS FEILD SPEAKS ON "LAY-OUT" | 2/24/1939 | See Source »

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