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Word: auto (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President Coolidge reduced the tariff on phenol (carbolic acid) by 50%. Carbolic acid is used to make telephones, cigaret holders, auto enamels, explosives, and many another U. S. product, as well as to disinfect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Coolidge Week: Nov. 14, 1927 | 11/14/1927 | See Source »

...bricklayer, the two clerks, the telephone instructress, the electrician, the tire repair man, the auto salesman, the baker's delivery man, the floor walker, the ice salesman, the tailor and the leather worker who were empaneled three weeks ago in Washington D.C. to decide the guilt or innocence of the aged New Mexico politician (Albert Bacon Fall) and the opulent oilman (Harry Ford Sinclair) in their alleged conspiracy to defraud the U. S. ( TIME, Oct. 31), had listened for over a week to legalistic intricacies. Between court Sons they were free to go to their homes, their only instructions being...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORRUPTION: Oil On a Jury | 11/14/1927 | See Source »

...Electric Auto-Lite...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Alert Toledo | 11/14/1927 | See Source »

...about the case at all. A dozen peers whose lack of knowledge was adequate were soon chosen to try whether or not the Messrs. Fall and Sinclair conspired criminally to defraud the U. S. Besides the bricklayer, clerk, telephone instructress, electrician and tire repair man, the dozen included an auto salesman, a baker's delivery man, a leather worker, another clerk, a floorwalker, an ice salesman, a tailor. They settled themselves in their box and prepared to try to understand, weigh, decide...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORRUPTION: A Jury On Oil | 10/31/1927 | See Source »

Died. Frederick Skiff Field, 44, son of the late famed poet, Eugene Field, of burns received in an auto accident; at Tomahawk, Wis. Nick- named "Daisy" by his father (who imagined that his son's eyes looked up at him like flowers), Frederick Field never forgot the curious merry games his father used to play with him; games in which Daisy was a little rabbit and his father was a big blue bear. When Daisy was a tiny child his father wrote him a letter about "the old blue bear, the lion, the elephant, and the flim-flam...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Sep. 19, 1927 | 9/19/1927 | See Source »

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