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...when Mary was 46, the Buckingham was torn down. Brother & sister moved to a seven-room, $30-a-day suite at the faintly seedy Hotel Seymour on West 45th Street. The brother died in 1925. Mary went out seldom after that-usually only around the corner to the ancient, prim Fifth Avenue Bank where she kept a checking account of $1,000,000. In 1927 Mary shut herself into her suite for good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: The Heiress | 2/20/1950 | See Source »

...grinning conductors on Hong Kong's double-decker trolleys politely refused to accept fares. Said they suavely: "It's a Christmas present from the company." This was the trolleymen's way of warning their employers that they were deadly serious in their demand for a 50?-a-day wage increase. The employers were deadly serious, too. After four days of free rides for the populace, during which penniless coolies sprawled delightedly about the upper decks (first class), the management sacked the conductors, halted service...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HONG KONG: How Long | 1/9/1950 | See Source »

Repentant Sinner. Pirogov was promptly released. But Barsov was whisked out of sight. The Soviet embassy searched his empty $2-a-day hotel room, then sent a note to the State Department. State...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REFUGEES: Flight from Freedom | 9/12/1949 | See Source »

...patients that it does not do a very good job of cleaning, and may cause "abrasion cavities" by wearing off the enamel. A year and a half ago he started out to find something better. Last week, having cho sen the final design, he was ready to start 500-a-day production in a Mt. Vernon, N.Y. machine shop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Brushless Toothbrush | 1/17/1949 | See Source »

...steel industry caved in last week under the pressure of labor's demand for third-round wage increases. To the 35,000 miners in the steelmakers' "captive" coal pits went the same $1-a-day boost John L. Lewis had wangled from other coal operators. Then U.S. Steel Corp., which had held out for more than two months against the wage-price spiral (TIME, May 3), gave Phil Murray what he wanted for his steelmakers: an average 13?-an-hour increase. Other steel companies followed U.S. Steel's lead, were expected to follow it also with price...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Up & Up & Up | 7/26/1948 | See Source »

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