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Spars on all 2023 were later reinforced, and Hunter's line is still flying a fleet of 24. Both Martin and Northwest pooh-poohed the lawsuit, and Glenn Martin said it was just "a quarrel between insurance companies which doesn't affect us at all." But neither company...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: Washday | 4/25/1949 | See Source »

The people came. In the thronged square, Social Democratic Leader Ernst Spars climbed on to a platform. He pointed to the overcast skies which had for two weeks been filled with the roar of U.S. planes carrying food to besieged Berlin. "Up there," cried Spars, "the American people are showing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATIONS: Purchase of Freedom | 7/19/1948 | See Source »

To some, Author Phillips' description of Salem's great moment may seem like a rather ill-timed assertion of the superiority of the past. Yet Mr. Phillips' account of the Salem Federalists is enlightening. Jefferson in maritime New England was about as popular as Sherman became in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Before the Harvest: Before the Harvest | 1/5/1948 | See Source »

Sandbars & Sioux. The typical upper-river sternwheeler, displacing perhaps 300 tons, drew a mere 20-to-30 inches of water, burned some 25 cords of hard wood a day. In emergencies, it could lift itself over shallows by means of special stilt-like spars poised on its bow. In the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Steamboat Story | 8/19/1946 | See Source »

Tars and Spars (Columbia) introduces to the screen a likable blond zany named Sid Caesar. This otherwise routine little wartime musicomedy is about life & love in the U.S. Coast Guard-i.e., another late-arriving salute to the services, featuring singing Tar Alfred Drake, dancing Tar Marc Platt and Cinemactress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Feb. 4, 1946 | 2/4/1946 | See Source »

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