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Dates: during 1920-1929
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It was Calvin Coolidge, apostle of Prosperity, visiting perhaps the greatest single source of Prosperity in the U. S. The low mountains of Itasca and St. Louis counties are, literally, mountains of iron. Near Hibbing, where the earth gives an enormous red yawn, is the Hull-Rust Mine, the largest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Iron Country | 8/13/1928 | See Source »

One midwinter day in 1900, three men entered the gate in front of Kentucky's capitol at Frankfort and started walking toward the edifice. Halfway through the grounds stands a fountain, the overflow of which had only partly frozen on the path. As the three men turned aside to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Exile | 8/13/1928 | See Source »

"We especially enjoyed watching the bright faces and listening to the merry voices of the thousands of children . . . enormous crowds . . . delightful experience . . fine weather."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Best Butter | 8/13/1928 | See Source »

The testament of Lenin referred to by Exile Trotsky constituted Lenin's intellectual last will and legacy to the Soviet Union; but has been suppressed in Russia by Dictator Stalin because it contains the following damning passage: "Comrade Stalin, having become general secretary, has concentrated an enormous power in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Red Menace | 8/6/1928 | See Source »

Oceanographer Iselin knows what he wants. He wants to see, touch, examine the Globigerina ooze of the ocean bottom, the volcanic debris of the ridge top. To this end he has designed special apparatus: an enormous dredge with bulldog teeth which, lowered to the bottom will take greedy bites of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Atlantis | 7/16/1928 | See Source »

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