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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Three weeks ago Soviet Dictator Josef Stalin abolished Saturday and Sunday, instituted a new calendar, placed Russian industries on continuous working basis (TIME, Oct. 7). Kindred ideas of high pressure efficiency came last week to Spanish Dictator Don Miguel Primo de Rivera. He issued a manifesto...
Coffee has been Brazil's bonanza for over a century. There are more than 100 Brazilian planters with individual incomes exceeding $50,000. Most of them spend three lavish months a year in Paris, three decorous months at their massive Baroque mansions in Rio de Janeiro, and the remaining half year supervising their estates. Most of these rich men hail from Sāo Paulo, "The State With a Billion Coffee Trees," which produces over half the world's crop. Most of them believe firmly in the efficacy of a combination in restraint of trade to keep prices...
Hurrying last week to visit Commander Byrd was Sir George Hubert Wilkins, who will be 41 just six days after Commander Byrd. He stopped at Rio de Janeiro last week. As he left there for Buenos Aires and Graham Land south of Cape Horn, his supply and base ship William Scorseby sailed from Simonstown, South Africa. Waiting for him since last year at Deception Island is the airplane which he and Carl Ben Eielson flew over Graham Land (TIME, Dec. 31, 1928). Pilot Eielson now is in Alaska developing an aviation line for the Aviation Corp. With Sir Hubert...
...second English printer, several of whose editions are being shown, was Wynkyn de Worde, about 1510. He inherited his types from Caxton, and a noteworthy fact is that he adopted his predecessor's complete heading, and added to it special designs both above and below...
...heritage intellectual de la genezation de 1900", Professor Morize, Sever...