Word: coverly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This country and Georgia in particular are to be pitied when Talmadge has enough news value to rate a cover on TIME. I as a Georgian resent his being so dignified. He definitely does not represent the better element of a grand State. His very expression shows why he is through...
...corn. It was impossible to move. Then I thought of TIME. For six hours, with an occasional break to survey fighting, fix my glasses on a bombing plane, or consult the French radio operator established behind the nearby farmhouse, I absorbed the Aug. 24 issue, including all ads (actual cover-to-cover reading time about three hours). Just as I was reading Medicine an airplane bomb landed in the corn field. Twice bullets cut our lines. Twice we missed getting through to New York. But in the end, after nine hours wait, the first actual battle broadcast in radio history...
That grand picture of Clark Gable on your front cover (TIME, Aug. 31) was a real treat. And the very revealing article on radio programs in general, and the Hollywood hours in particular, was most interesting. The fact that Louella Parsons is in cahoots with Hearst is all many people will .want to know about her. The Parsons' introductions, gushy and mealymouthed, are thorns in an otherwise enjoyable bowl of soup. How different from those of De Mille, Hughes and the informal Mr. Crosby...
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...placed in a small fibre box, were put in the custody of the safe deposit affiliate of Manhattan's Chemical Bank & Trust Co. which issued warehouse certificates against them. The certificates were then offered to the public at a price about 10% above wholesale platinum prices to cover the cost of assaying, ingoting, insurance, the first three months storage charges (5? an ingot per month) and the profit and commissions of the offerers. To the public the certificates were offered as a speculation and as a substitute for gold in hedging against inflation...