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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Says Authority McGuire: "jook as noun means a rather ordinary roadhouse outside the city limits . . . where beer is for sale, and where there is a coin phonograph, or nickelodeon, and space for dancing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 25, 1939 | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

Cinema's peculiar virtue as an art is that it conquers the limitations of stage and life, ranges wherever man's imagination takes him, unrestrained by time or space or experience. Nobody in the movie business ever realized cinema's possibilities more completely than elusive, gay, acrobatic Douglas Fairbanks, son of a Denver lawyer and Shakespearean expert...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Last Leap | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

Bedded and shown on the acres and acres of floor space in the International Amphitheatre at Chicago's stockyards were 13,340 combed, brushed, manicured, lowing, squealing, braying, baaing cattle, horses, sheep, swine. Canadian exhibitors were there in force, World War II having canceled out their Royal Winter Fair in Toronto...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FARMERS: Crops and Prospects | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

...least remarkable part of this 300% increase in production is the new plant. It will double P. & W.'s floor space, and the building will cost United not a dime. To speed up deliveries on orders for $60,000,000 or more worth of warplane engines and an additional $12,000,000 of propellers (which went next door to United's Hamilton Standard division), France has already advanced $1,500,000 to $2,000,000 to erect the new factory. The cost will be defrayed by Pratt & Whitney gradually by a small charge on each engine delivered until...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Silver Platter | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

...Note--The Crimson does not necessarily endorse opinions expreased in printed communications. No attention will be paid to anonymous letters and only under special conditions, at the request of the writer, will names be withheld. Only letters under 400 words can be printed because of space limitations...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: About Communism | 12/13/1939 | See Source »

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