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...quarrelsome wenches proved last week on the old Toluca road near Mexico City whether the rope is mightier than the axe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Rope v. Axe | 8/4/1930 | See Source »

...Axe-wench Melquiades Luna rushed with flashing machete upon Rope-wench Dorotea Mancilla who sat astride a prancing pinto pony. As the axe swung the pony pivoted and the lasso hissed. Caught and pinioned by the terrible rope, Axe-wench Melquiades was dragged over pebbly ground 150 ft., screaming for mercy. Neighbors said that shrewd Rope-wench Dorotea had challenged her rival to their curious duel "about something that has kept them angry at each other for the last two years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Rope v. Axe | 8/4/1930 | See Source »

...gross comes from golf shafts, fishing rods, snowshoes, skis; another 5% from railway appliances like joint shims and rail anchors. Yet its chief income is from farm tools, in which it handles 60% of the U. S. trade. Last week this business was expanded when a merger with Kelley Axe & Tool Co. of Charleston, W. Va., and Skelton Shovel Co. of Dunkirk, N. Y., was proposed. American Fork & Hoe is a typical large, closely held company. Its assets are near $10.000,000. Its earnings have never been disclosed to a curious public. President and general manager of the company...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Tool Growth | 8/4/1930 | See Source »

...long ago tall, grave King Haakon VII belied his stern appearance, made the first contribution to a fund for the benefit of a woman with two children who, beaten repeatedly by her husband, finally killed him with an axe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NORWAY: Scalawags Beware | 5/19/1930 | See Source »

...Buffalo, N. Y., Mrs. Anna Sahl found William Burkowski-hacking at her front porch with an axe. Rebuked, William Burkowski admitted that he was a housewrecker, that he had mistaken her house for that of a client...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Roomer | 4/28/1930 | See Source »

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