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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...mules, or about one to every five persons." This is a false impression, for the facts of the matter are that the horses have been steadily decreasing. In fact, there were 3,189,000 less horses in this country the first of this year than the corresponding date of 1920. I am also enclosing a booklet called "The Horse Situation, Facts Regarding Number and Value of Horses in the United States 1911-1924." . . . Our viewpoint is entirely unprejudiced as we manufacture and sell horse-drawn tillage tools as well as power farming equipment. E. R. DURGIN...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Sep. 5, 1927 | 9/5/1927 | See Source »

...officials believe to be their vital needs [see above], if such a plan is to get anywhere. Also, it must take into account the Loree fifth trunk line plan, regarding that plan as a fact and not as a theory. . . . They are counting on another conference at an early date. . . . Failure to confer further, it was pointed out, would be a suicidal policy from a railroad standpoint...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: R.R. Re-grouping | 8/29/1927 | See Source »

Improvement Noted Sirs: I judge from the "Announcement" which has been repeated on your letter page since August 1 that your editorail staff was moved from Cleveland to New York on or about that date. Approval! Approval! Approval! New York is the only fit and adequate home for TIME and I have already noted an improvement in your issued of August 1, August 8 and August 15. They have more savor already and they seem to me to show that you are now successfully gleaning a much larger field of news information than you could possibly have drawn upon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Aug. 22, 1927 | 8/22/1927 | See Source »

...long nerve of commerce could be spun out along the great circle route from Seattle to the Aleutian Islands, to Hako date, to Shanghai, to Manila ast difficulty of cable companies is obtaining the necessary government permits to bring their lines ashore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Communication | 8/15/1927 | See Source »

...prisoner he proved so docile and almost smugly obedient that his seven-year term was reduced automatically to five. Even this was cut down a few days last week by the prison authorities who had reason to think that if Horatio Bottomley was released on the date previously announced he would be met at the prison door by a huge admiring crowd of onetime soldiers, race-track folk, stage people and vague legions of "the lower classes." To prevent this scandal, the prisoner was hustled out of jail and despatched to his Sussex home in a discreet motor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Ticket-of-Leave-Man | 8/8/1927 | See Source »

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