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...After this triumph all three Davises motored out to Pnom Penh, capital of Cambodia (French), seat of that good-natured puppet, King Sisowath Monivong. Upon Governor General Davis, His Majesty bestowed the Grand Cordon of the Royal Order. Stiff little women in pearl-encrusted cloth-of-gold performed a royal ballet. Then the Davis party motored on to Siam, lamenting perhaps that U. S. Colonial policy does not permit the existence of genial kings who could thrill distinguished visitors by conferring on them whatnots...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Governor General's Junket | 4/6/1931 | See Source »

...picture eight feet wide. Standard film can be used. It passes over the wide-angled Trans-Lux lens which throws the image on the reverse side of a translucent screen through which it is visible from the front. Ordinary screens for movies are opaque, made out of heavy cloth painted with certain chemicals. Screens used in Trans-Lux are molded of a chemical composition of which gelatin is the base. A combination of properties in the lens and the screen prevents the image from penetrating beyond the screen. Trans-Lux first became commercially practicable about two years ago. Early Trans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Trans-Lux | 3/23/1931 | See Source »

...Minnesota law, which closely follows other State laws on court immunity for wearers of churchly cloth, provides...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Secrets of the Confessional | 3/16/1931 | See Source »

...Hampshire's great industries, as everyone knows, are textiles (notably the Amoskeag Mills of Manchester, Nashua Manufacturing Co. of Nashua, biggest world producers of blankets), and famed Indian Head cloth; shoes (International Shoe Co., Manchester; J. F. McElwain Co. of Nashua, makers of Tom McAn and John Ward shoes); granite (at Concord, Milford, Conway); power (notably the $32,000,000 generating plant at the 15-mile falls near Monroe, owned by Grafton Power Co., indirect subsidiary of International Paper & Power Corp.); boxwood (notably at Nashua, Keene and Rochester-where last fortnight bells were rung in celebration of the "Dryness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Granite State | 2/9/1931 | See Source »

...wages paid in cloth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE LEAGUE: De Native Scum. . . | 2/2/1931 | See Source »

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