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...fixed charges each year-enough to boost 1935's $6,139,654 loss toward a 1940 profit. It will also free enough cash to get the company started on a 10-year, $22,000,000 modernization program to replace its lumbering trolley cars and sway-backed busses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UTILITIES: 962 Years Lost | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

...come away! My soul is full of discord and dismay." All during the lecture he nodded and frowned and bowed and articulated to himself. When the instructor read a particularly stirring passage, the little man would shut his book, lean back in his chair, and with eyes closed, would sway from side to side like a cobra, hypnotized by the music of the verse...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 11/1/1939 | See Source »

...child, Gustaf V was sent to a Stockholm private school and his then reigning uncle, King Karl XV, was engaged at this time in shepherding a gradual constitutional change, whereby effective political power in Sweden later passed safely from the Crown-which had enjoyed autocratic sway-into the hands of the elected Parliament and responsible Ministers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NORDIC STATES: Mighty Fortress | 10/30/1939 | See Source »

Thus far the resolve holds sway over the hatred. But let the Allies begin to lose ground. Let the French millions dash themselves to pieces on the Westwall and the German juggernant begin to roll. Then will a huge wave of propaganda sweep over the nation, rivalled only by a new wave of natural sympathy for the Allied cause. The result will be a sea of passion almost impossible to contain. Then will the resolve crumble and the hatred arise. And then America...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SHIFT INTO NEUTRAL | 9/23/1939 | See Source »

...holds sway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Troubadour | 8/14/1939 | See Source »

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