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...well trained and one of the best equipped in the world. From the famed Bofors munitions works come the world's best anti-aircraft guns (to make up in part for Sweden's slim, 500-plane Air Force), machine guns, anti-tank guns, rifles, armored cars, tin hats. The Swedish Navy has three 7,000-ton vestpocket battleships carrying 11-inch Bofors guns, one combined cruiser and aircraft carrier, seven smaller coast-defense vessels, 16 destroyers, 16 submarines. Based at the old Hanseatic port of Visby on Gotland Island (whence come some of the world's finest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: Sweden on the Spot | 4/29/1940 | See Source »

...pudgy Silliman Evans. In a big, red, open, flag-stuck Buick, they roared off at 60 m.p.h. behind ear-busting police sirens down the Franklin Pike to Mr. Evans' home, a plantation once owned by Andrew Jackson's partner John Overton. There field-hands drew beer in tin cups, sweaty cooks turned roasts over barbecue pits, visitors trampled the fresh young daffodils in the meadow. Mr. Farley spoke, shook hands, praised Cordell Hull, Tennessee, the post office, went indoors to eat a vast spread of fried chicken, ice cream...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Mr. Farley Takes a Trip | 4/22/1940 | See Source »

...Bolger, the Tin Man in "The Wizard of Oz" and a famed tap dancer, Virginia O'Brien, co-starring with Bolger in "Keep of the Grass," opening in Boston April 29 may possibly appear with other members of the cast, while Ray Guild, winner of first prize in the Freshman Amateur Hour Wednesday night, and the Wessel brothers, who appeared on Major Bowes program and are now in Steubens in Boston, have a series of impersonations to amuse the crowd...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CAB CALLOWAY TO APPEAR AT SMOKER | 4/20/1940 | See Source »

...Kodaly was as great as that side cut by the New Orleans Rhythm kings in 1922--"Tin Roof Blues." Wolfe and his mates were as relaxed as a good Negro band at its best. All the way through they came in smoothly, just behind the beat (that's what I mean by relaxed). Relaxation is undoubtedly the main stuff in all good playing and very few white outfits have the trick, but I mean these boys really have. Hear this combo by all means. Give a listen too, to their neat v-shaped phrases. They got the gift...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SWING | 4/20/1940 | See Source »

...jute, tin, rubber, fur and whiskey buyers, the new rules made little difference. But for other goods, the de clining free pound was the same sort of mixed blessing as would be a reduction in U. S. tariffs. British custom tailors with clients in New York began calling attention to the availability of fine English woolens. U. S. fabricators, fearing increased imports from Britain, took alarm. The U. S. cotton market jittered as Bombay prices cheapened in relation to domestic ones. Alarmed too were some U. S. exporters who compete with Britons in foreign markets, especially when the British & Latin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN TRADE: Puzzling Pound | 4/15/1940 | See Source »

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