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...standing in a clump of banyan trees and I didn't recognize him at first. He was wearing a big pith helmet and I hadn't calculated on his having a red beard. He stepped out on the road and said, 'Hi, John,' and I said, 'What say, Al,'-a little more excitedly than we would when we met in the corridors of the TIME & LIFE Building in New York...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Oct. 12, 1942 | 10/12/1942 | See Source »

Today, having got rid of some of its financial oddments like Checker Cab, ATCO owns majority control of New York Shipbuilding Co., the largest single interest (28.5%) in sick Auburn Automobile Co. It also spreads through the flying business like the branches of a banyan tree. This is because of its working (29.7%) control of Aviation Corp., which in turn owns outright a third-layer subsidiary, Aviation Manufacturing Co. AMCO owns Stinson (military and commercial planes), Lycoming (engines) and 60% stock control of Vultee (military planes). Furthermore, its parent Aviation Corp. owns potential working control of American Airlines, through...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOLDING COMPANIES: Bankers' Banyan | 2/19/1940 | See Source »

After 24 years with the Saturday Evening Post, Herbert Johnson displays a belief in the righteousness of U. S. Business and the Republican Party as unwavering as the lines of his workmanlike cartoons. Once he pictured "Government in Business" as a banyan tree whose roots curled out to strangle honest enterprise. He liked the idea, improved on it in a second cartoon by turning the banyan tree into an octopus named "New Deal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Lost Laughter | 10/26/1936 | See Source »

...They toured the islands with a party including President Castle H. Murphy of the Hawaii L. D. S. Mission. At Laie they attended a luan, at which President Grant alone used a fork, the others pitching into the food with fingers. At Hilo President Grant planted a banyan tree on a drive where banyans have been planted by Franklin Roosevelt, Vicki Baum, Cecil B. De Mille, Babe Ruth. Sun Fo. In Honolulu they attended a Samoan feast, a Chinese dinner. Then they set up the stake, which embraces 5,000 Mormons on the island of Oahu. Stake president: Ralph...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Stake No. 114 | 7/22/1935 | See Source »

Thus to the sighing of bamboo and banyan trees along the River of Perfumes sang the minstrels of Annam last week of the coming of a new Queen. The cultivators of rice turned from their fields; on the river bank the elephant washers turned from their elephants. In the Imperial Red City itself the three Dowager Empresses, relicts of the late Emperor, looked up from their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ANNAM: Wedding & Thanks | 4/2/1934 | See Source »

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