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...Story: In recent months one customer out of every five who has bought a Corona Portable typewriter (L. C. Smith & Corona Typewriters, Inc.) has bought a colored Corona Portable.*He purchases either a scarlet, a maroon, a green, a blue, a cream & gold, or a lavender & gold. Red is men's choice. Ivory and lavender are unpopular. Scarlet is popular. English & U. S. society women now have typewriters that do not suggest "business." Of the colored typewriters sold to date: 22 % are Scarlet 17 % are Maroon 18 % are Blue 13 % are Lavender 18 % are Green 12 % are Ivory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fashions: Office Equipment | 11/21/1927 | See Source »

...special study of the corona of total solar eclipses is being made at the Astronomical Laboratory by Assistant Professor H. T. Stetson, who has made trips to Sumatra, Norway and remote, portions of the world where total eclipses have occurred in recent years, in order to gather data. The photographic plates made in Sumatra in 1926, and in Norway last year, are being analyzed in an electrical apparatus developed for the purpose by Professor Stetson...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LABORATORY CONDUCTS STUDY OF SOLAR CORONA | 11/5/1927 | See Source »

...corona, which is the circle of light observed when the sun is completely obscured by the moon, is a subject of controversy, among astronomers, Professors Stetson explained to a CRIMSON representative. The solution of the problem is important because of its relation to solar eruptions, or sun-spots, which are being made the subject of scientific study in connection with seasonal weather prediction...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LABORATORY CONDUCTS STUDY OF SOLAR CORONA | 11/5/1927 | See Source »

During the last three years there have been an unusually large number of disturbances in the sun, and the corona has manifested corresponding variations. In order to get a series of observations of consecutive eclipses from which comparisons could be made, Professor Stetson has twice travelled nearly around the world, and one trip of 27,000 miles was made to take observations of an eclipse which lasted only 30 seconds...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LABORATORY CONDUCTS STUDY OF SOLAR CORONA | 11/5/1927 | See Source »

...National Cash Register Co. and resembling a cash register with three banks of keys, is adaptable to all kinds of analysis and distribution works, as sales analysis, payroll, cost or expense distribution, purchase analysis, distribution of remittances received, stock & production control, and the like accounting intricacies. Victor and Corona typewriters both portables and both with standard 4-row keyboards, were sold to people who travel or do writing at home. Offices that require extra typewriters occasionally bought them for such emergencies. Victor Adding Machine Co. makes Victors; Coronas have been popular for 20 years. Remington and Underwood also make portable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: National Business Show | 10/31/1927 | See Source »

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