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One of the most interesting lots was a block of four 24? red & blue 1918 air mail stamps on which the airplane was printed upside down. The sheet of 100 was bought at the Washington postoffice at the issue price of $24, taken to New York, then to Philadelphia where...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Stamp Sale | 12/4/1933 | See Source »

At Round Hill, South Dartmouth, Mass., in a dirigible hangar which Col. Edward Howland Robinson (Hetty's son) Green loaned, three of President Karl Taylor Compton's M. I. T. men have built an electrostatic high voltage generator to compete with lightning's violence. Last week in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Voltage | 7/10/1933 | See Source »

*Though Oak Street Beach is near the centre of Chicago's exclusive Gold Coast, it draws from the slums west of State Street untidy hordes of hoi polloi such as swarm on the public beaches of all big cities. Chicagoans guffawed last week to read in the smart New...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jun. 19, 1933 | 6/19/1933 | See Source »

If an uninvited guest had mingled with that company, first amusing them with witticisms but finally enacting a Poe-like "Masque of the Red Death," there would have been havoc throughout the land. Boards of directors would have rushed to urgent, solemn meetings. The stockmarket would have roared downward. Life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Party at Lynnewood | 10/24/1932 | See Source »

Never again will TIME compare Sarah Joslyn with the late Hetty Green. But TIME is not convinced that the Western Newspaper Union was chief source of the Joslyn fortune.-ED.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 25, 1932 | 1/25/1932 | See Source »

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