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...feast. He leaves with the other guests. But he returns, sinister and languid, to toy with the nerves of both murderers and audience until he chooses to reveal and confirm his suspicions. One of the slayers is then prostrated with fright. Holding the other at bay with a sword cane, Cadell shrills a police whistle as the curtain falls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Sep. 30, 1929 | 9/30/1929 | See Source »

Synthetic Milk. China's Ernest Tso ground up fresh water-soaked soy beans and mixed the pulp with cane sugar, corn or rice starch, cod liver oil, calcium lactate, sodium chloride, cabbage water. This synthetic milk nourished Chinese infants as well as normal diet would have done...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Physiological Congress | 9/2/1929 | See Source »

...Peanuts on Shelled (lb.) 4? 7? 4? Pig Iron (ton) 75? $1.12½ $1.50 Pork (lb.) ¾? 2½? 2½? Potatoes (cwt.) 50? 75? 75? Poultry, dead (lb.) 6? 8? 10? Shingles Free 25% Free Sole Leather Free 12½% 15% Sugar Cane (ton) $1 $3 $2 Sugar (Cuban, lb.) 1.76? 2.40? 2.20? Sugar (world, lb.) 2.20? 3? 2.75? Tomatoes (lb.) ½? 3? 2½? Wheat (bush.) 30? 42? 42? Woolen Rags...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONGRESS: The Senate's Bill | 8/26/1929 | See Source »

...housewife's prejudice against beet sugar, her belief that it is inferior to cane, was admitted by Senator Smoot. He narrated: "Once I took a sack of beet sugar to my wife who rejected it, saying she did not like to cook with beet sugar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE TARIFF: Gestures | 7/15/1929 | See Source »

...blonde he has taken to the mountains. Adolphe Menjou, who talks throughout the picture with a French accent, although in private life his inflection is thoroughly native, makes a suave, satiric portrait out of the role. Best shot: Menjou. exhausted by exercise and mountain air, thumping with his cane on the bedroom door of his inamorata and uttering protests of passion while he eats a sandwich...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Jul. 15, 1929 | 7/15/1929 | See Source »

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