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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...pestered him for an insurgent declaration. Last week he was persuaded to speak at his summer home on one of the Thousand Islands of the St. Lawrence, but all he said was: "I will wholeheartedly cooperate with the next President of the U.S., whoever he may be, provided my co-operation is wanted, for the solution of this [agricultural] problem." Then he turned to his recreations-golf, fishing, boating, permitting politicians to be certain that he would make no bolt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Peeking | 8/13/1928 | See Source »

Walter Clark Teagle, president of the Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey, sailed on the Aquitania for his usual summer trip. His chief concerns: money from the Soviets for oil properties they confiscated from his company's business allies; German extraction of oil from coal; Turkish oil production. Last week, he became president of the Near East Development Co., holders of the U. S.'s 23¾% interest in Mosul fields...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Comings & Goings: Aug. 13, 1928 | 8/13/1928 | See Source »

Motor Gasoline. Dr. Gustave Egloff, research director of Universal Oil Products Co. of Chicago, declared that motorists could save 3,000,000,000 gallons of gasoline and this year $400,000,000 if motor vehicle makers made their motors for higher compression...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Chemists | 8/13/1928 | See Source »

Upon the claims of cigaret makers that smokers know their favorite brands by taste, research from Reed Institute at Portland, Oregon, last week, cast doubt. P. Lorillard Tobacco Co. (Old Gold) in particular has been illustrating its extensive advertisements with photographs of famed persons choosing Old Golds while blindfolded from among other brands. Reed Institute laboratory tests by one Louis Goodman, graduate student, however, show that only once in nine times on the average does one recognize his favorite cigaret whether he is blindfolded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Smokers Ignorant | 8/13/1928 | See Source »

...Another Pole, less fortunate, was Lieutenant Kasimir Szalas, Polish army aviator, who flew from Warsaw to sunny, iridescent Bagdad, only to be killed when his Fokker crashed at the southern airdrome. Included in the casualties tragically terminating this 2,438-mile flight were co-pilot Lieutenant Kalina and Mechanic Klosinek, who were both injured. The trio had planned to return on the following...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Pick-Ups | 8/13/1928 | See Source »

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