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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Whatever the cause, His Majesty changed his course and decided to take an even more roundabout way. Accompanied by Queen Geraldine, his three-month-old son Skander, four of his sisters and a suite of 20, Zog first went to Bucharest, Rumania's capital. The temporary crisis over Danzig caused him to stay there three days, but when things died down he proceeded on to Warsaw. From Warsaw early this week he was scheduled to go to Gdynia, the Baltic Polish port near Danzig, where he was to catch a ship for France. Onthelstanbul-Bucharest-Warsaw-Gdynia-Paris route...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Geography Lesson | 7/17/1939 | See Source »

...modern. This time he wanted a church that would look as useful as he thought he could make it. To designs submitted by numerous firms, Father Troy had but one answer: "Yes, they are very beautiful, but not my nightmare." Archbishop John Gregory Murray put no stone in his way when the well-known local firm of (Carl J.) Bard & (J. Victor) Vanderbilt came forward with a design that Father Troy recognized as his nightmare...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Father's Nightmare | 7/17/1939 | See Source »

...Gustav Egloff, ace researcher of Chicago's Universal Oil Products Co., last week revealed that he had devised a new way to make synthetic rubber from butane gas. Butane, used for heating, welding, motor fuel, is extremely plentiful and cheap. It is present in natural gas, is also a by-product in oil refining. Dr. Egloff estimates that from these sources 15 billion pounds of U. S. butane are available every year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Rubber from Butane | 7/17/1939 | See Source »

...times the endurance of natural rubber. Therefore, at 20? a pound, it would be much cheaper, on a tire mileage basis than the 14? a pound at which natural para rubber is currently quoted. Dr. Egloff believes that U. S. commercial production of his butadiene rubber will get under way in less than a year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Rubber from Butane | 7/17/1939 | See Source »

...Give the black Cardinal a one-way ticket to Dachau!" (Naziconcentration camp...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Classic Tragedy | 7/17/1939 | See Source »

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