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Dates: during 1920-1929
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TIME is my greatest source of information. I enjoy it thoroughly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Sep. 24, 1928 | 9/24/1928 | See Source »

...front and behind. A man who sees everything, knows everything and controls everything in the underworld," said Mr. Monaghan, but did not name any name. The diversion of 350,000 gallons of pure grain alcohol from Philadelphia throughout the land was described as the Master Mind's greatest recent coup. In addition to being the upkeeper of its own 13,000 saloons and speakeasies, Philadelphia appeared as a spigot from which alcohol poured out to all parts of the country with a source of supply dwarfing even Chicago...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORRUPTION: In Philadelphia | 9/17/1928 | See Source »

...Craftsmanship greatest contribution to science is his use of x-rays to describe and measure the atoms and molecules of crystals. As is expected of new B. A. A. S. presidents, Sir William stated his scientific credo: "There are some who think that science is inhuman. They speak as though students of modern science would destroy reverence and faith. I do not know how that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: At Glasgow | 9/17/1928 | See Source »

Bank. The Commercial National Bank & Trust Co. began organization work in Manhattan with $14,000,000 capital & surplus, greatest initial resources of any bank...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Index: Sep. 17, 1928 | 9/17/1928 | See Source »

Travelairs, Wacos, Cessnas, Moths, Thunderbirds, Lockheeds, Fairchilds, Stinsons, Challengers, Bellancas and a dozen other makes of planes set out last week from Roosevelt Field, Long Island, to fly to Los Angeles in the greatest transcontinental air derby ever staged. The power was furnished by Wright Whirlwind, Curtiss O X5, Warner Scarab, Pratt & Whitney, Wasp and many another motor. The pilots were stimulated by prizes totalling $57,500. In three classes, 62 planes hopped off. Stops for the night were made at Columbus, Ohio, Kansas City, Mo., Fort Worth, Tex., El Paso, Tex., Yuma, Ariz...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Derby | 9/17/1928 | See Source »

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