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...waited for an excuse to raise the U. S. flag over California. An Indian attack gave it to him. Quickly he assembled U. S. settlers, made Suiter's fort his base, marched the length of California, put an end to Mexican domination, was made provisional governor and com-mander-in-chief of California. He paused only long enough to name San Francisco harbor the Golden Gate. Meanwhile, the U. S. had declared war on Mexico and a General Kearney arrived in California to take charge. Kearney and Frémont quarreled so violently that a lieutenant named William Tecumseh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NON-FICTION: Fr | 3/12/1928 | See Source »

...produced by the new sunken pit. In the business offices, there was no waiting for esthetic failures. President Samuel Insull shook the box-office records together and discovered that the 107 performances on the home stage would cost the guarantors some $450,000. This would not deprive the Chicago Com-pany of its new twenty-million, forty-two-story opera house, to be ready season after next...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Chicago in Boston | 2/13/1928 | See Source »

Drugs. President Louis Kroh Liggett of United Drug Co. recommended to his stockholders the merger of their company (one of the largest chains of drug stores in the world) with the Sterling Products Inc. of West Virginia (largest producer of household remedies in the U. S.). Com- bined assets would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: More Mergers: Feb. 6, 1928 | 2/6/1928 | See Source »

...radio transmitter, which got its power from the engine's headlight generator. A brass rail on the tender served as aerial. A mile back on the caboose was a wire antenna and inside a 50-watt transmitter energized by a generator which the caboose axles operated. Trainmen and engineer com- municated easily...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Train Radio | 2/6/1928 | See Source »

Naval bigwigs congratulated Com-mander Charles E. Rosendahl of the Los Angeles exultantly. The test proving that floating filling stations are feasible, widened immeasurable the range of dirigible utility. Commercial dirigible interests eagerly proclaimed that transoceanic airship travel was a more immediate probability now that dirigibles may nose safely down to the vast smooth expanse of landing deck superimposed on aircraft mother ships. The flying deck of the Saratoga is 880 ft. long; the Los Angeles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Hit the Deck | 2/6/1928 | See Source »

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