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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Acting last week apparently on the strength of this rumor, the Section of Exploration and Geological Studies of Mexico's Department of Industry, Commerce and Labor announced that it was preparing to dig for oil in the apse of the National Cathedral. The inference was that if any oil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Oil in Apse | 6/17/1929 | See Source »

The explorers and geologists pointed out that there was good reason to believe that the Aztecs used and exploited petroleum. The immense, ornate 17th Century cathedral was built on the site of the great sacrificial pyramid destroyed by Cortez in 1521. New evidence points to the fact that the pyramid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Oil in Apse | 6/17/1929 | See Source »

¶ Old rumors that Manhattan's beloved Carnegie Hall would be sold and torn down were routed last week with the announcement that a new "Andrew Carnegie Memorial" organ has been purchased for the auditorium. Built by George Kilgen & Son. Inc., of St. Louis (organ architects for St. Patrick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Ditson's $800,000 | 6/17/1929 | See Source »

THE KING WHO WAS A KING-H. G. Wells-Doubleday, Doran ($2.50). To Herbert George Wells, as to many another social idealist, man's future means a great deal. But Wells is prophet as well as wisher. Years ago, so he claims, he took a joyride in an aeroplane...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Kings Like Wells | 6/3/1929 | See Source »

After their ritualistic chores were done for last Sunday, Manhattan's Episcopal Bishop William Thomas Manning and Baptist Harry Emerson Fosdick proceeded that evening to the former's Cathedral of St. John the Divine. There theocrat and minister watched 2,000 trained nurses march up the aisle and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Manhattan Birth Control | 5/27/1929 | See Source »

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