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...Zigzag Progress. The right-hand-men of Joseph Stalin have seldom known what his left-hand-men were doing, and vice versa, but the Dictator has been the clear-headed master of Communist Parties all over the world since he became the master of Russia. His famed "zigzag methods." much criticized in private by Communists, have an inner consistency; i.e. he is out to see that Stalin and Russia come out as nearly on top as possible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Loud Pedal | 11/21/1938 | See Source »

Last week Pan American started survey nights for a regular service from Seattle to Juneau, Alaska, last remaining zig in a zigzag line of connecting air routes up from the southernmost capital of the Western Hemisphere (Buenos Aires). The survey plane, a 15-passenger Sikorsky S-43, followed a roundabout route circling out over the ocean, not because she might not have flown over Canada but because Pan American would rather fly over water than land...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: North to the Arctic | 8/15/1938 | See Source »

...Derby winner), owned by U. S. Banker William Woodward: the Ascot Gold Cup, No. i race of the world's richest and most fashionable meeting of thoroughbreds; coming from behind at the two-mile mark and defeating Lord Glanely's Buckleigh by a nose after a breathless zigzag spurt in the stretch; at Ascot Heath, an hour from London. A 100-to-7 shot, Flares avenged the defeat of his full brother Omaha, who lost by a nose two years ago. Only one other U. S.-bred horse had ever succeeded in winning the Gold Cup; the late...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Who Won, Jun. 27, 1938 | 6/27/1938 | See Source »

...hope that ripples might top previous crests of 121 for the industrials, 23.5 for the rails, thus show the current wave to be coming in. This week's Rhea letter said that every upward zig-zag step, if confirmed by both averages, would be bullish, but a downward zigzag prior to penetration of 121 and 23.5 would mean danger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Tides, Waves, Ripples | 6/20/1938 | See Source »

Rightist General Miguel Aranda, commanding the mud-sodden, zigzag line from Teruel to the Mediterranean, issued a "Fight, rain or no rain!" order but Rightist troops inched forward only five miles to take the town of Portell before being halted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR IN SPAIN: Rained Out | 5/16/1938 | See Source »

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