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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Puritanism. The tablespoon with which they dished this out they called the New Life Movement, and with every ounce of Nanking's authority they dosed all China. Batch after batch of local mayors and magistrates were ordered to Nanking, drilled and exhorted there in the primary decencies-to stop wiping noses on sleeves, to stop taking bribes from litigants. They were warned that he who did not practice the new Puritanism might expect the worst-and this was no empty threat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Man & Wife of the Year | 1/3/1938 | See Source »

Obviously this dissension could not continue long in such a tight industry as aviation. Last week President Patterson and President Smith of American had dinner together and talked things over. At the end of the evening they had come to an agreement. The likelihood was that American would stop mentioning the Low Level Route and go back to decently competitive remarks on noncombustible topics like speed, comfort and hostesses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Low Level | 1/3/1938 | See Source »

...with backgrounds and other eels of intermediate background, and taken to the camera. In Snow White, the $75,000 multiplane camera is the one chiefly used-it is much like any other movie camera, except that its action can be governed to expose one frame of film and then stop. Regular cinema cameras run at the rate of anywhere from eight to 64 frames per second. What makes the Disney camera unique is its towering, 14-ft. framework. The camera peers vertically down from the top of this iron structure through several levels, set below it like the grooved shelves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Mouse & Man | 12/27/1937 | See Source »

...wants from the eight leading U. S. firms that build big airplanes a machine delivered within three years that will fly 5,000 mi. non-stop at 200 m.p.h. at altitudes up to 20,000 ft. and carry a payload of 25,000 Ib. in which is included full day and night accommodation for 100 passengers, crew of 16, mail, baggage and express. Six months from now if Colonel Lindbergh and P. A. A. are still interested, $35,000 will be allotted to cover the cost to the builders of further estimates. As nothing a third the size has ever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Technical Adviser | 12/20/1937 | See Source »

...after they locate the spy to whom he is signaling. All night long they trace the light across the city, killing an engineer, an aviator, a girl, until by morning they have reached the front lines of the fascists, are still feverishly following the gleam when fascist bullets stop their search...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Hater of Hate | 12/20/1937 | See Source »

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