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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After some spectacular maneuvers off Capri, the cruisers Fiume and Zara opened up against the radio-controlled target cruiser San Marco, firing live 8-inch shells at a range of eleven miles. An airplane circling above the target ship radioed to the Conte di Cavour that "the third salvo of shells hit the target squarely." Two planes then blotted out the San Marco with a smoke screen like the drawing of a quick curtain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY-ITALY: $20,000,000 Visit | 5/16/1938 | See Source »

...prow of the Nahlin is an Indian totem pole base from which sprouts as a figurehead an Indian chief with.flowing headdress, peering ahead. On final orders from the Admiralty, the Nahlin nosed this week into the minute Balkan port of Sibenik, between Zara and Split, there picked up King Edward & Friends...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: The Crown: Aug. 17, 1936 | 8/17/1936 | See Source »

GIVE Us THIS DAY-Louis Zara-Bobbs-Merrill ($2.50). The rise and decline of a baker, told in vague, groping, pseudo-epic style. Tedious reading, relieved occasionally by an unintentionally comic passage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fiction: Recent Books: May 25, 1936 | 5/25/1936 | See Source »

...next war will be partly my fault," said Miss Zara duPont, "because I didn't kick hard enough." An active lady of nearly seventy, the first cousin of the Wilmington munition manufacturers is a vigorous worker for peace...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "Next War Will Be My Fault," Says Peaceful Cousin of Munition Makers | 11/29/1935 | See Source »

...confused with Clara Zetkin, the withered, tottering "Mother of German Communism." is Zara Witkin of Los Angeles, the smooth, upstanding designer of the Hollywood Bowl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Balkhazhstrov Conserved | 10/17/1932 | See Source »

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