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...other undeveloped section of the U. S." Crammed with 4,000-foot mountain chains, this wilderness has only three connections with civilization-a highway up the coast and 50 miles inland a parallel highway and Southern Pacific R. R. line. Between are said to lie rich deposits of chrome, copper, gold, iron, coal, limestone and platinum beneath an evergreen blanket of several billion feet of virgin timber. To exploit this domain has been a local dream for 50 years but only in the last three has exploitation actually begun, and that almost solely through the efforts of a onetime hunter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Gable's Gold Coast | 4/4/1938 | See Source »

...also been an inmate of Leavenworth Penitentiary. Paroled by Calvin Coolidge after helping to foil a jail break, King of Duty Ghadiali was almost deported as an Oriental alien in 1934, reinstated as a citizen by Franklin Roosevelt within the last year. He is now head of the "Spectro-Chrome Institute" at Malaga, N. J., which claims to cure diseases by colors and light rays, as well as a candidate for Governor. Last week he opened his campaign with a speech to an audience of eight in Newark's Berwick Hotel. Said King of Duty Ghadiali: "Senator Clee will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW JERSEY: Preacher and Parsi | 10/4/1937 | See Source »

...Holland 52 years ago, he came to the U. S. in 1907 to study at Princeton, Stanford, the University of Montana, returned in 1916 to his native land where he worked on the development of sodium vapor lamps in the Philips laboratories and devised a way of sealing chrome steel to glass in X-ray apparatus. Last autumn he again bobbed up at Stanford as a research assistant. "Europe," he said, "iss no blace to bring up fife children." Stanford is financing his present work, expects some share in the profits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Cool Stars | 2/8/1937 | See Source »

...Allegheny Metal" contains 8% nickel, 18% chrome...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Sheldon Day | 9/28/1936 | See Source »

...books, a maze of museums, foyers, restaurants. Besides the two main halls, there will be four conference rooms. The base of the Palace will be marble and granite; the rest, tufa, a purple-red volcanic stone found in the Caucasus. Lenin's statue will be aluminum or chrome steel. Including the statue, the building will be 1,361 ft. high (Empire State: 1,248 ft.). Boris Michailovitch Iofan is one of U. S. S. R.'s best-loved architects. Dark-eyed, black-haired, his energetic, agile figure is recognized everywhere in Moscow. Married and childless, he lives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ART: Soviet Palace | 3/19/1934 | See Source »

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