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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With his mania for perfection in fundamentals, his devoted scouting corps (mostly former pupils who would still die for dear old Neyland) and the Southeastern Conference rules that permit subsidized players, The Major has been able to mobilize an increasingly formidable squad each year. This year's is probably his best...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Southern Accent | 10/30/1939 | See Source »

...ranking U. S. pros, with the notable exception of Don Budge); defeating Defending Champion Fred Perry in the final, 8-6, 6-8, 6-1, 20-18; in the movie set setting of the Beverly Hills Tennis Club, at Beverly Hills, Calif. Star attraction of the tournament was greying, still garrulous Bill Tilden, who, in his first appearance on a U. S. tennis court in almost three years, demonstrated that he still has the most formidable strokes of any player in the world but that his 47-year-old legs are not what they used to be. In the semifinals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Who Won, Oct. 30, 1939 | 10/30/1939 | See Source »

...Whose side is God on?" is a question raised in every war. European churchmen began to dogmatize about it as soon as World War II began (TIME, Sept. 18). Last week the question was still mooted. In England...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: God This, God That | 10/30/1939 | See Source »

Outstanding among Stone & Webster orders was one to build a 32,000-kilowatt generating plant to help Big Steel's huge plants in Pittsburgh's Monongahela Valley. Big Steel, fresh from a $642,000,000 modernization program, still has more old-fashioned equipment to replace than its smaller competitors. (Only a month ago it resurrected some old-style hand rolling mills to help handle its huge order book.) Last week word leaked out that Big Steel would install three new continuous rolling mills in its new ($60,000,000) Irvin Works at a cost of over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONSTRUCTION: Business Builds | 10/30/1939 | See Source »

...Young, who considers tear gas a humanitarian substitute for bullets, was out of the spotlight. He was still President of Federal Laboratories, but Federal Laboratories had become the subsidiary of a much more obscure company. Name of its corporate parent was Breeze Corporations, of which Munitions Salesman Young became executive vice president, and a director...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANUFACTURING: War Babies | 10/30/1939 | See Source »

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