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Still to achieve commercial importance is the extraordinary cotton-picking machine developed by the Rust brothers three years ago. Definitely a commercial success is another cotton machine with nearly as many social implications-the Dixie Cotton Chopper. Last week when several South American planters ordered cotton choppers, they could not be promised delivery sooner than next July, for Dixie Cultivator Corp. of Dallas was already working at capacity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Rubber-Tired Hoe | 3/7/1938 | See Source »

...Medecin Malgre Lui," a movie taken directly from Moliere's play by the same name, imitates the Comedic Francaise in the acting and directing. The cast is an extremely good one, headed by M. Rogoni, as Sganarelle, the jovial, sensual wood-chopper who suddenly becomes a doctor in spite of himself...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AT THE GEOGRAPHICAL INSTITUTE | 2/18/1938 | See Source »

...Chopper's Bottle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 15, 1937 | 2/15/1937 | See Source »

...stoker is supposed to have occurred to a greenhouse operator who got sick & tired of hopping out of bed to stoke his furnace on cold nights. The iron works had actually turned out a few crude stokers, using a feeder worm similar to that in a meat chopper. Several months after the iron works changed hands, inquiries began to straggle in from people who had seen the stoker in operation. Suddenly realizing they were missing a trick, the two contractors dusted off the old plans, developed an improved model along lines already laid down in big power house installations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: First Firemen | 2/3/1936 | See Source »

There must be many thirty-eights on that subway train flashing by. In ones and twos and threes. From Hartford, Conn., Philadelphia, Pa., and Okmulgee, Okla. And from Roxbury, East Boston and Revere. Come to leap into the meat-chopper. Come to wear their young lives away on Andromache and Karl Heinrich. Come to strut before Brattle brats and grovel before Deans. Come to sublimate their young instincts on Soldiers Field and the River Charles. Come to sublimate their young instincts on Soldiers Field and the River Charles. Come to write feeble pish for the Lampoon and pseudo-esoteric banalities...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 9/1/1934 | See Source »

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