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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Such a news forecast came out of Washington last week when the Treasury Department prepared to issue permits which would start distilleries making bourbon and rye whiskies to replenish fast-dwindling medicinal stocks. Distillers from Louisville and Baltimore went into conference with Prohibition Commissioner James M. Doran who will supervise the reopening of U. S. liquor factories. Throughout the land government gaugers measured the whiskey supply held in bonded warehouses, forwarded their reports to Washington...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Medicine | 7/29/1929 | See Source »

Thick and fast flew the questions at New London. Was Commissioner Wickersham demanding that all States give more material assistance to the U. S. on enforcement? Or did he hint at local option, with each State free to deal with Prohibition as local sentiment dictated? The words "modify" and "reasonably enforcible" caused Dry Governors to bristle with hostility...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE STATES: Conference No. 21 | 7/29/1929 | See Source »

...Luft Hansa, strongest aviation concern of Middle Europe if not of all Europe. Condor does a good mail and passenger service between Asuncion, Para guay, Buenos Aires and Para, Brazil. Competing is Aeropostale, French-subsidized. Its main purpose is to rush mail from Buenos Aires to Natal, Brazil, whence fast ships rush the sacks across the Atlantic to Dakar, Senegal, for retransfer to France-bound planes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: 246 Hours | 7/22/1929 | See Source »

Lloyd Mills of Los Angeles quoted Shakespeare's, ''He tires betimes that spurs too fast betimes," and prayed that schools cease driving children into neuroses by too swift education...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: A. M. A. Convention | 7/22/1929 | See Source »

McCall's, third largest in size of woman's magazines, has in recent years been a fast-growing profitmaker for its owners. Profits give publishers ideas. Last week McCall Co. decided to acquire control of Consolidated Magazines Corp., publishers of the fiction monthlies Red Book (circulation, 791,219) and Blue Book (165,903). Louis Eckstein, "the man behind Ravinia,*" president of Consolidated, required 25,603 shares of McCall stock, valued at more than two million dollars, to consummate the deal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: McCall Buys | 7/15/1929 | See Source »

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