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I started my first company, I had less than ... we have with our new company. I have always hoped, since my difficulties began, to re-enter the banking business. I feel the time is now ripe. Tremendous fortunes will be made within the next few years by those businessmen who...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: $1,000 Comeback | 9/12/1932 | See Source »

Prisons. Foresighted persons suppose that criminals will soon learn to use airplanes as an aid to prison breaks. Unless actually caught in an overt criminal act, a pilot would be liable only for violation of the Federal regulations against low flying (minimum, 1,000 ft. over cities, or towns or...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Overhead Law | 11/10/1930 | See Source »

Does it not seem to you that there is material for an editorial against the present practice of not returning final examination papers? Perhaps few students would take advantage of a change in method, but that does not deny the benefit. I take it that an examination is to reveal...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Expostulation | 2/7/1930 | See Source »

The Corporation's explanation of its failure to use the present H. A. A. surplus for the completion of the new gymnasium is far from satisfactory. Foresighted as this laying-up of treasures for the future may appear to be, the neglect of the present athletic welfare of Harvard is...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: H. A. A. ENDOWMENT | 5/3/1929 | See Source »

† James Burgess Book Jr., 37, son of a foresighted Canadian physician who amassed Detroit real estate and a fortune. He has built up whole streets at a time, including the tallest hotel in the world, the Book-Cadillac. The world's tallest structures include : Stories Feet Eiffel Tower...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Arts: Skyward | 12/13/1926 | See Source »

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