Word: jans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...feel the impulse strong upon me to write once more to the publication which I "adopted" in its infancy, or at least in its young childhood (1923). (See TIME, Jan. n, 1926, LETTERS...
...ROYAL FAMILY−George S. Kaufman and Edna Ferber smiling at the domestic antics of one of our theatrical first families (TIME, Jan...
...description of the Alexanderson−G. E. device appeared in TIME, Jan. 23. A description of another device, the Conrad−Westinghouse, appeared in TIME...
...misgivings, announced it would not only continue the two present long wave circuits-but would open additional short-wave circuits from transmitting stations to be built near Trenton, N. J. Calls in the first eight months of 1928 were three times the total of Jan.-Aug., 1927. The 12½-hour service has been lengthened to 14½ hours. Now connected with the trans-Atlantic circuit are Great Britain, Germany, Switzerland, Antwerp, Brussels, Berlin, Paris, Copenhagen, Oslo, Malmo, Stockholm and eight Mexican cities. The latest extension, completed last fortnight, carries the service to Guadalajara, Mexico...
...years ago. Four years ago he was again in the U. S. This time he wore a wooden stump for his right leg shot off during the War. And again he urged a sea-level canal-alongside the present-Canal, one to cost a billion dollars (TIME, Jan. 28, 1924). The U. S. War Department has his recommendations on file. U. S. businessmen occasionally wondered if the old engineer was alive. He was, and at 69 still shrewd and witty...