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...rain dripped all night from miles of waterproofed flags and bunting. Last revelers from the gayest nightspots had not reached home before operators in the telephone exchanges began plugging in wake-up calls to subscribers. Ordinarily there are about 800 such calls in London, this morning there were 10,000. It was barely light and still drizzling when the long streams of humanity began flowing in toward the heart of the spectacle, on foot, in motors, on the subways...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Great Day in the Morning | 5/24/1937 | See Source »

...preparation for the one day in the year when it is the sporting capital of the U. S. For its 50,000 visitors, who it hopes will leave about $1,500,000 behind them, Louisville this week will provide a program aimed at making this 63rd Derby the noisiest, gayest, most profitable since Depression...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: 63rd Derby | 5/10/1937 | See Source »

Eighty bright colored flags and banners, predominantly crimson and white have turned the Yard, one of the University's most famous possessions, into a gay festival eaclosure, the gayest in its long history...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Elaborate Public Address System Installed; Peter Harvard Typical Harvard Man; taken 300 Years to Fence in Yard | 9/18/1936 | See Source »

...dance, sing or wisecrack would be considered a "Fascist" and shot. Said Miss Miller: "Everyone, ham actors and $500-a-week stars, were paid exactly $1 each per day, plus a meal ticket. We could eat on our tickets at the Ritz Hotel. Barcelona is one of the gayest spots today, because the Reds have rounded up so much talent." Stalemate- Elsewhere in Spain last week the armies of conservative Generalissimo Francisco Franco and General Emilio Mola continued fighting their bloody civil war with armed Radical militia of the Madrid Government which itself estimated that 95% of the officers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: Long Live Dynamite! | 8/31/1936 | See Source »

...have been discovered by a Swedish workman who unwittingly treated pulp with an alkali instead of the usual acid. The result was called kraft-Swedish for "strength." Upshot was that Union Bag's sulphite pulp plants had to be scrapped. For five successive years, right through the gayest days of the Coolidge Boom, the company reported deficits. Then, having adjusted itself to the kraft order, Union Bag climbed out of the red in 1931, only to slip back the next dark year. In 1933 profits of $400,000 were reported, and last year, the best in eleven, Union...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Pines & Pioneers | 7/1/1935 | See Source »

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