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Custom-made from the last kit of carburetor wrenches in its Winnipeg shop to its corps of well-drilled, 9540-125 Ib. hostesses, Trans-Canada Air Lines is piloted by 40 veteran Canadian airmen who were instructed for a year by U. S. airline veterans. First scheduled night flights last week followed a course that had an emergency field every 35 miles, a major airport with radio range every...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: New and Good | 3/13/1939 | See Source »

...Rations for all colonels not to exceed one pony of beer, one quart of whiskey, 15 Ib. of food...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WISCONSIN: Colonel Business | 3/6/1939 | See Source »

...Imports of cottonseed oil rose from zero in 1909 to about 200,000,000 Ib...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Cottonless Cotton | 3/6/1939 | See Source »

...birthday by giving out interviews, going to a party some friends gave in his honor at Masonic Temple. He is still healthy, still putting on weight, still growing (three-fourths of an inch, eleven pounds in the last six months). Present height: 8 ft. 8½ in. Weight: 491 Ib. When he quits growing, his family plans to build him a "dream house," with ceilings "at least twelve feet high...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Mar. 6, 1939 | 3/6/1939 | See Source »

More pounds of rubber now go into automobile accessories than into tires and tubes, which remain the bulk of the rubber business only because of replacement demand. The average car requires 40 Ib. of rubber for its accessories; some cars have as many as 300 rubber parts. And these do not include a new rubber spring Goodrich is perfecting, a new rubber shock absorber of Firestone's, or the industry's current prize hope-sponge rubber cushions, which it believes will supplant horsehair, coil springs and other upholstering material not only in cars but in mattresses and furniture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: 100 Good Years | 3/6/1939 | See Source »

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