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A biting wind whistled across Detroit City Airport one day last week as the doors of the largest airplane hangar in the world were rolled hack to reveal what U. S. aircraft manufacturers had to offer for 1932. Within the hangar some 50 air- planes of assorted sizes stood among...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics: Roll Call | 4/11/1932 | See Source »

It must be remembered that there are also innumerable women who for long years have been feeding, dressing, guarding an army of derelicts, armless, legless, blind, faceless, gas-etched trunks, and shellshocked, insane minds. You may not often see one. They are kept close, cherished from indecent display, but they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Letters, Apr. 4, 1932 | 4/4/1932 | See Source »

With seven Houses in operation, the men who are good oarsmen are scattered among seven crews. Eight excellent seniors, for example, who have rowed together for the past three years, are now separated, and obliged to enter the same shell with a group of younger, less experienced, but not less...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE HOUSE CREWS | 3/26/1932 | See Source »

If not the best architect in New York, jovial Joseph Urban is certainly the most spectacular. A great vat-shaped Viennese, 60 years old, weighing 230 Ih. according to his secretary's latest estimate, his first triumphs were the Khedive's Palace in Cairo; the Alexander Bridge over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Machines to Live In | 2/22/1932 | See Source »

Threading his way through assembled chorus girls, stage men ropes and trunks, he then went on in the famous telephone skid. Coming on stage he signed, "The trouble with a show's running a long time is that people social all the original stuff, so that new joke material has...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fred Allen Has Yen to See Two Dwarfs in Tug-of-War With Piece of Dental Floss--Fascinated by Stimson's Mustache | 2/18/1932 | See Source »

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