Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Your reference to the Egyptian Parliament being "a steaming little sweatbox" during the recent investiture of King Farouk (TIME, p. 18, Aug. 9) would have been expected, except that again American engineering and manufacturing has brought cool comfort and the other benefits of true air conditioning to a tropical potentate...
Along a big new concrete chute at the Akron (Ohio) airport last week, 130,000 people, more than regularly attend any U. S. sporting event except the Indianapolis auto races, jammed together to watch the finals of the fourth annual All-American & International Soap Box Derby. The racers, selected through elimination races sponsored jointly by the Chevrolet Division of General Motors and 120 U. S. newspapers, had been having the time of their lives for three days at Chevrolet's expense in Akron's Mayflower Hotel. Their vehicles were miniature rubber-tired automobiles constructed by the contestants...
Because he believes that listening to the radio has given U. S. children sophisticated musical tastes, Songwriter Caesar last winter set out to provide modern words and music for classroom songs. Irving Caesar has no dependents except his mother and a dog (see cut), but he was brought into the world on Manhattan's lower East Side with the help of a nurse from the Henry Street Settlement, and knows the hazards city life presents to the young. Deploring the fact that for generations musicians have been writing down to the young, he wrote 21 songs, for which Composer...
...Dawes boys, Beman is a great vacationist in Florida and Canada, leaves active direction of the company to hardworking Brother Henry. At his desk on the 22nd floor of Chicago's Pure Oil building every morning promptly at nine, President Dawes rarely gets away for golf except on weekends. An amateur of Civil War history and photography, he is a great friend of Cartoonist John McCutcheon and Illinois' onetime Governor Lowden, annoys some people by preserving a dead pan when he tells funny stories...
...adopted during the post-War period of strikes and labor migrations, and Father Coughlin presented him with an oratorical laurel wreath. Scholarly President Joslyn-who is 64, and often mistaken for a doctor because of his black goatee and spectacles, and who still goes to the office every day except Wednesday, when he stays home to read to his wife while she knits-enjoys a great deal of pride in all this. And his company has enjoyed 18 years of labor peace. The plan...