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Empire, Not until it turned into the 20th Century did the U. S. magazine business start swelling to mammoth proportions. At the root of that amazing growth was Cyrus Curtis who developed advertising as a sort of huge hydro-electric system to drive the wheels of the publishing business. What Henry Ford did for automobiles, Cyrus Curtis did for magazines- and they both waxed very, very rich. Today the House of Curtis towers so high above all others that there is no room for comparison...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: After Curtis | 7/17/1933 | See Source »

...owners to ease their mortgage troubles. ¶ Adopted (209-10-150) a resolution in- structing the Judiciary Committee to investigate impeachment charges by Virginia's Smith against Federal Judge Lowell of Massachusetts (see p. 14). ¶ Adopted a resolution whereby the New York State Power Authority would get hydro-electric rights along the international rapids as a result of the St. Lawrence Seaway development; sent it to the Senate. For these rights the State Authority would contribute about $89,000,000 toward the $272,000,000 total U. S. cost of the project with Canada...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Work Done, May 8, 1933 | 5/8/1933 | See Source »

Work will continue for three or four months beginning June 20. Grenfell urgently expresses the need for all volunteers who can pay their transpiration and expenses. In the past years about 150 Harvard men have responded, and this year plans are being completed for installing a hydro-electric plant, utilizing a reservoir built by volunteers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: UNDERGRADUATES TO AID IN WORK OF LABRADOR MISSION | 4/13/1933 | See Source »

...Harding. Uruguayans have never considered him the dictator type. A graduate of Montevideo University, he early gave up law practice to become a regular Colorado Party man. He won a name as a smart, respectable politician by vigorously backing public works: rural free schools, roads, harbors, airports, fertilizer factories, hydro-electric plants. He put through Uruguay's high tariff on agricultural products. His jobs: Minister of the Interior, Minister of Industries, Minister to Italy, Special Ambassador to Argentina, member of the National Administrative Council. A year after his 1930 election he toured inland Uruguay, speaking out for a change...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: URUGUAY: Gabriel Over the Fire House | 4/10/1933 | See Source »

...Their father was Jules Piccard, professor of chemistry at the University of Basle. A third son, Paul, helped install the first hydro-electric turbines at Niagara Falls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Left-Handed Twins | 1/23/1933 | See Source »

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