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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Walter Gibbs bought his land in 1913 he thought he was just going to use it for shooting ducks. But people told him he could easily pay his taxes in muskrat pelts. Mr. Gibbs was pleased to find he could. He invented two traps: one which got the muskrats...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Trapper | 12/6/1937 | See Source »

Lumber was by no means Portland's only sore spot. There was trouble in garages and warehouses. The surrounding area was worried by a California butchers' boycott on Oregon turkey.* A. F. of L. teamsters were still boycotting beer carrying the red union label of A. F. of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Northwest Front | 11/29/1937 | See Source »

While she was being quietly ousted last week, two younger, more tractable career women received rich promotions. The wife of Soviet Premier Vyacheslav Molotov, who bears a strange Semitic resemblance to the Duchess of Windsor, has for five years managed the Soviet cosmetic trust so efficiently that, aside from ball...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Commissaresses | 11/29/1937 | See Source »

When the Merchant Marine Act of 1936 was approved by Congress last summer it established a U. S. Maritime Commission, empowered it to manage U. S. shipping and to investigate and report upon the shape of things to come. Fortnight ago, Commission Chairman Joseph Patrick Kennedy presented such a reckoning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Kennedy's Clippers | 11/29/1937 | See Source »

52nd Street (Walter Wanger). Time was when Manhattan's 52nd Street, between Fifth and Sixth Avenue, was just as stuffy as the picture that bears its name. But in the last decade or so Bacchus and Momus have taken over the genteel brownstone houses whence Rhinelanders, Iselins, Fahnestocks, Vanderbilts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Nov. 22, 1937 | 11/22/1937 | See Source »

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