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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Immediate reason for Harry Sinclair's pronunciamento was a small loss on Consolidated's operations in the first quarter (figures not made public). Since last year when the Government convicted a batch of the major oil companies under the Sherman Act, fear of further anti-trust suits has...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PETROLEUM: One of Two Things | 5/29/1939 | See Source »

The answer was the new 167, a sleek, mid-wing job. Most expensive of Martin's war babies, the first one cost $882,000 before its tests were completed. Last January, while Douglas was under scrutiny in the Senate for showing its new attack bomber to France before the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Kites to Bombers | 5/29/1939 | See Source »

Under CAA's certificate of convenience and necessity, awarded to Pan Am the day before the first trip, only two transatlantic flights may be made a week. With authorizations from France and England for six a week, CAA is keeping room for competition. Only competitor now in sight: American...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Now the Atlantic | 5/29/1939 | See Source »

From the tortuous, terraced streets of Chungking, frightened Chinese saw doom in the blood-red discs on the under side of raiders' wings before ever a Japanese bomb had been dropped. The people of Madrid and Barcelona learned to duck whenever they saw the red-&-yellow wing insignia of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Signs of Death | 5/29/1939 | See Source »

Slighter than The Song of the World, and written before it, Harvest, a simpler, more sentimental story, has been more popular in France. Its plot withers under synopsis like a mushroom in the sun: a huge, passionate peasant becomes the last inhabitant of an abandoned mountain village, marries a stray...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Pastoral | 5/29/1939 | See Source »

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