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...valley of the Kanawha River where the old but still snappy Boeing would have plenty of room to gain some altitude. But also ahead was a high tension line and Russell Wright knew he could not clear it. He eased to the left, squeaked over another power line (they surround too many U.S. fields) and headed up a wide ravine into the hills. The Boeing's best rate of climb on one engine was not quite enough. No more than 100 feet from the top of the rise, Pilot Wright saw he must certainly crash. He eased his ship...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRANSPORT: Take-off Trouble | 4/28/1941 | See Source »

...duty of the septet is to mop up John Brown (Raymond Massey) and his followers, then engaged in smuggling slaves out of the South. On this peg is hung a moving and tragic theme: that these friends, fighting side by side, are innocently feeding a flame which will soon surround them, find them enemies in an irrepressible conflict. With the help of Director Michael Curtiz' well-tempered direction and Massey's passionate interpretation of Zealot Brown. Santa Fe Trail, in spite of its hackneyed romance, becomes a brilliant and grim account of the Civil War background...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Dec. 23, 1940 | 12/23/1940 | See Source »

...site was Little Pea Island, a bleak cluster of rocks about 150 ft. square, a mile off the shore of Westchester County. According to CBS calculations, it is the finest spot around New York City for radio transmission. Now leveling the island off, CBS engineers intend to surround it with a 16 ½ ft. sea wall, anchor a 410-ft. transmitter upon it in 39 ft. of concrete. Housed in a control building 75 ft. square will be all the equipment needed for transmission. Two telephone lines will be laid on the bottom of the Sound to carry programs from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: CBS on an Island | 9/2/1940 | See Source »

...result was a scene of carnage and valor more concentrated in space & time than anything modern history ever saw: men by hundreds of thousands retreating in a desperation to live, other men by hundreds of thousands pressing forward in a desperation to surround, slaughter, annihilate. To preserve morale on both sides, and because the arithmetic was next to impossible, true figures on the loss of life were glossed over officially. But it could be guessed that not less than 500,000 men were killed, wounded or captured in seven days on a patch of earth about the size...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: Battle to the Sea | 6/10/1940 | See Source »

Critical early rear-area fighting also raged in the bright tulip fields around The Hague, which the Germans bracketed with parachute parties in an apparent attempt to surround and capture Queen Wilhelmina and her Ministers.* One band was mopped up near Valkenburg. The Dutch troops with light arms and fast U. S. cars were directed to the "fallen angels' " landings by military and commercial radio...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WESTERN THEATRE: Hitler's Hour | 5/20/1940 | See Source »

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