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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...soup: asparagus, bean, beef, bouillon, celery, chicken, chicken gumbo, clam chowder, consomme, julienne, mock turtle, mulligatawny, mutton, oxtail, pea, pepper pot, printainer, tomato, tomato-okra, vegetable, vegetable-beef. Into the making of these mighty mixtures go okra and sweet pimentoes from the South; peas, corn, lima beans from New Jersey and Delaware; red-hearted Chatanay carrots, in summer from the Finger Lakes (N. Y.), in winter from Brownsville (Tex.); yellow turnips from Nova Scotia; head rice (hard enough to stand cooking) from Patna on the Ganges River; wild Irish thyme, sweet marjoram; seasonings from Amberna and the Isles of Spice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Soup | 9/2/1929 | See Source »

...Angeles, oldest of dirigibles (five years), made repeatedly successful tests over New Jersey and New York carrying a plane slung from a trapeze under the hull. The plane would detach itself, fly about, return to the trapeze. The dirigibles which Goodyear-Zeppelin Corp. is preparing to build for the Navy at Akron will be fitted not only to carry planes similarly but also to haul them into her hull. Values of the procedure are: in war, dirigibles might carry swift planes to scenes of action; after sortie the planes could return to the mother ship for fuel, ammunition, sleep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Tokyo to Los Angeles | 9/2/1929 | See Source »

This new type of filling station-in the fullest sense-is about to be erected by Beacon Oil Co., subsidiary of Standard Oil of New Jersey. Beacon announced last week that it had made contracts for six trial stands with Hygrade Food Products Corp. which will furnish the required food and drink. The roadside refreshment stands of the country number 110,000. They did a business of $250,000,000 in 1928. In an era of mergers what is more logical than to do this business efficiently in connection with the filling station...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: For Man & Machine | 8/19/1929 | See Source »

...cameras and prying reporters anxious to gather material on the sayings and actions of assembled geniuses. As each wore a large identification tag bearing the name of his state, they soon found this an easier means of appellation than remembering proper names. "Oregon" compared notes with "Maryland"; "New Jersey" told "Kansas" about Manhattan, for "New York" himself was from Utica, had never seen New York City. Soon they decided to form a club, "The Edison 49ers," to meet every ten years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Brightest Boys | 8/12/1929 | See Source »

Plans call for a quadrangular development containing a new hotel, community building (postoffice, town hall, library), blocks of shops, a plaza, a park. Estimated cost: $10,000,000. President of the improvement corporation is Edgar Palmer, potent townsman, Princeton alumnus (1903), board chairman of New Jersey Zinc Co., financier (realty, railroads, insurance, public utilities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Princeton Town | 8/5/1929 | See Source »

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