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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been bringing pressure to bear against a Congressional investigation of TVA. So incensed was he, in fact, by this charge that he wanted the reporters to put on the record his statement that any special writer or columnist who had suggested it had "made it up out of whole cloth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POWER: Morgan Out, Morgan In | 4/4/1938 | See Source »

Seated cross-legged in a basket, the dead Indian was wrapped in hundreds of yards of cotton and wool cloth and decked in all the finery of the historic civilization from the dry eastern sea-coast of South America...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Peabody Museum Mummy Rapidly Disintegrates As Archeology Students Remove Moldy Wrapping | 3/29/1938 | See Source »

...appears too that the Biology Laboratory receives a large share of wooly cloth. But officials hastened to explain that the soft texture 0 the diapers make them ideal for the prosaic purpose of polishing glass ware...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DIAPERS FOR STILLMAN MAKE MATERNITY WARD POSSIBLE | 3/28/1938 | See Source »

...tall, solemn Prince Loewenstein stopped at the casino to watch a roulette table in action. He was impressed by the jitters of notetakers who tried to write down not only the numbers which turned up, but their colors, their positions on the transverse and vertical rows of the betting cloth and various other group affiliations. There was hardly enough time for all this between spins of the wheel (which take place about once every 50 seconds). Prince Loewenstein decided to invent a machine which would record all the necessary factors automatically in one operation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Gadget for Gamblers | 3/21/1938 | See Source »

...John Harvey Kellogg is a healthy old man. For many years he has worked hard, ridden a bicycle for exercise, worn white clothes the year around "to let sun-light through," chewed each mouthful of vegetarian fodder 32 times. Editor of Good Health, author of Plain Facts (sex education via pictures of plant life), he is the inventor of flaked cereals manufactured by his brother, W. K. Kellogg. Dr. Kellogg once dictated (indoors) for 20 hours straight, dressed only in his summer underwear. Last week he celebrated his 86th birthday by stripping to a loin cloth, dictating (outdoors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Mar. 7, 1938 | 3/7/1938 | See Source »

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