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...George Young would not deceive you, nor would he exaggerate. This cool air and Summer sunshine, the nights with the inevitable blanket...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Super-Wonderful | 8/22/1932 | See Source »

...wanted to know where I was taking her. I told her I was going to carry her to an ambulance and she replied: 'I know what you are going to do.' ... I carried her out and put her in the hole. I placed some quilts, a blanket and her coat in the hole and put a dish pan over her head. Then I filled up the hole with dirt and the next day I put a concrete floor in the hen coop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: 50,000,000th | 6/6/1932 | See Source »

...users obtaining it at 2-2½?. One large maker says it will drop to 1½? by summer. At 2?, or $40 a ton, the CO 2 men think their product can compete with water-ice. In addition to being twice as cooling, solid CO 2 leaves a blanket of gas which insulates against heat for so long a time as to make it as a whole nearly ten times as efficient as water-ice. Thus at present prices the CO 2 industry hopes to have its real opportunity to supplant water-ice in refrigerating carload lots. But whether...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: CO2 Merger | 5/2/1932 | See Source »

Fortnight ago President Hoover asked Congress to join a general conference to work out a national economy program. What the President really wanted and what Congress had no immediate intention of giving him was blanket authority to reorganize and consolidate the executive Government as he saw fit. Democrats answered the Hoover message last week by challenging the President to specify what cuts and consolidations he had in mind, to accept his constitutional responsibility of recommending changes to Congress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Politics v. Economy | 4/18/1932 | See Source »

Petrolle wrapped himself in the Indian blanket which he wears instead of a bathrobe and said: "He's the gamest guy I ever fought." Battalino, knocked out for the first time in his career in a fight which observers compared to the greatest in lightweight history, was comforted by being matched with Tony Canzoneri for the lightweight championship...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Madman v. Triphammer | 4/4/1932 | See Source »

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