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...tomato can in your vegetable garden." He quit making loans, spurned new checking accounts, wrote down $24,000 of Federal Reserve stock to 10?, and siphoned out of the Chicago Federal Reserve Bank some $2,500,000-most of his bank's reserve-which he stuffed in deposit boxes. Increasingly bitter and violent about the New Deal, Banker Nichols declared last year that he would liquidate if Roosevelt was reelected...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEFLATION: Gnashing of Teeth | 9/1/1941 | See Source »

Fired with enthusiasm, Professor Troxell started looking for resonant rocks, found an ideal deposit of them in a 200-million-year-old lava bed atop Avon Mountain near his home in Hertford. Toting a load of particularly clangorous cobbles home with him, Professor Troxell set them in a row, chipped them into tune with the aid of a chisel and a 10? pitch pipe. When he was through, he had a complete C Major scale three octaves long...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Petrophonist Troxell | 8/25/1941 | See Source »

...York Central. Pennsy now owns a 30% stock interest in the Lehigh Valley Railroad (which connects Buffalo with New York Harbor); Wabash owns another 21%; and the thought of a Pennsy-Wabash-Lehigh tie-up gave New York Central competitive fits. As a fit-cure, Pennsy agreed to deposit its Lehigh stock, along with the Wabash's, with independent voting trustees...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Wabash to Pennsy | 8/18/1941 | See Source »

Samaritan. In Manhattan, an inventor displayed a doorbell requiring a nickel deposit, called it a "salesman repeller...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Aug. 4, 1941 | 8/4/1941 | See Source »

...first Plan was to build a base of heavy industry far from dangerous European borders. Around the biggest coal deposit in the world, in the Kuznetsk Basin in mid-Siberia, mines were opened, steel mills built. The huge magnetic iron-ore mountain at Magnitogorsk in the Urals got other mills. A tractor and rifle factory went up at Chelyabinsk near...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Center Shifted | 7/14/1941 | See Source »

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