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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Italian Senator, gave to the Pope. His Holiness now can radio-talk directly with his recently renovated summer home at Castel Gandolfo 14 miles away, and no one can listen in. Cost of operating the equipment is no more than the cost of keeping a 30-watt incandescent bulb alight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Marconi's Parabola | 12/5/1932 | See Source »

...Bulb Machine Sirs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Heaven, Hell & Johnstown | 10/24/1932 | See Source »

...trials in triumph. One of the two biggest ships built since the War (51,000 tons), the Rex tore over her 600-mi. course at an average speed of 28 knots, became unofficially "the world's fastest liner."* At times her 125,,000 h. p. turbines drove her bulb-stemmed hull 29 knots. With her smaller sister the S. S. Conte di Savoia, she is Il Duce's supreme bid for traffic over the longer, warmer, and some say smoother southern route. When the Rex ploughs up New York Harbor seven days out of Naples on her maiden...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: II Duce's Ships | 9/19/1932 | See Source »

...notable one in the news last week was Mayor James John Walker of New York. One of his good friends, a Mrs. Clarabelle Walsh who lives in the Hotel Plaza, advised him to drink the stuff because "he was suffering so." Three times a day he squeezes the rubber bulb of a device called a "Radiumator," which supplies water with short-lived radium emanation. Experts say that aside from the psychological effect, the only good derived is from the quantities of water imbibed, none from the emanations. But Mayor Walker, with the persistence of a convinced self-medicator, declared last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Radium Drinks | 4/11/1932 | See Source »

...Jersey, also on the same day, Arthur Harry Moore's inauguration as Governor barely escaped tragedy when a photographer's flashlight bulb exploded almost in the new executive's face as he was taking the oath of office...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTE: Brothers & Governors | 2/1/1932 | See Source »

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