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...newest rage in made-in-France toys is Massacre! and Parisians have also been buying carload shipments of a made-in-Germany toy called Les Moineaux Avares or "The Greedy Sparrows...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Lindbergh & Massacre! | 12/31/1928 | See Source »

...Russia was done for and the War near an end-it was blustery March of 1917-but enough was enough, and he yearned Eastward toward his wife and little girl. His monotonous duty was to pile timber in freight cars bound for the front. At the end of one carload he neatly constructed a cavity for himself, and that night slipped out of the bunk house. Under cover of his comrades' merrymaking he crunched across the snow to the wire enclosure; under cover of the wind screaming through ice-ribbed pines he snapped the twanging wires. Three days later...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Coffin to Coffin | 12/17/1928 | See Source »

...faithful who worship Advertisa, through the medium of cigarettes. Here Bill Tilden. Charlie Paddock, Amelia Earhart proclaim their remunerative devotion to the goddess (though Amelia did send her $10,000 reward to Byrd for his Antartic expedition). Soon Elnatein will be sold for "Not a cough in a carload"; and James Joyce's books, because "They are mild--yet they satisfy." Morning, evening, all day long chant the priests "Advertisa is great. Advertisa is great. Blessed be Advertisa, mother of Mammon. Bigger and better advertising...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE TENTH MUSE | 10/16/1928 | See Source »

...Christian General" and master of the largest personal army in the world (195,000 men). For a generation at least, Christian missionaries have called Feng the "Chinese Cromwell," rejoiced at his large-scale conversions of his troops to Christianity, and contentedly observed his distributions of Bibles in carload lots. Therefore the shock to Christians was great, last week, when delayed and not positively confirmed reports envisioned Marshal Feng as turning from Christianity to a newer faith...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Feng's Faith | 9/3/1928 | See Source »

...cane per caballeria is at least 15 percent greater than that of Cristalina, growing under similar agronomic conditions, and, as it is a more persistent grower, the fields do not need replanting so frequently. The cane stalks are solid and of greater weight than Cristalina. A sample of 22 carloads of this cane averaged 239 arrobas per car heavier than an equal number of Cristalina. (Cristalina usually weighs from 1,000 to 1,100 arrobas per carload...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BARBOUR EXPLAINS WORK BEING CARRIED ON BY HARVARD AT SOLEDAD PLANTATION | 5/31/1928 | See Source »

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