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...International General Electric Co.'s Mazda lamp patents expired in Japan. Japanese manufacturers jumped at the chance, flooded not only their own country with cheap bulbs but in 1932 dumped 113,000,000 Japanese light bulbs, selling at 5? and 10?, in the U. S. International General Electric of Japan, a U. S. subsidiary, applied immediately for new patents. Word leaked from the Japanese patent office last week that it would probably be granted. Hence the mass meeting. Though there are probably not 1,000 Jews in all Japan, 2,500 solemn-spectacled Japanese trooped to a hall, heard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Break the Mazda | 4/24/1933 | See Source »

...heated chambers. Through the racing, crowding thunderheads above, there still broke a few dull rays of yellow light, which reflected eyrily from Memorial's gray and blood slates into the oaken garret. The Vagabond turned from the casement to the dark and empty chimney corner and lighted the lamp by his deep leathern chair; the scurrying forms occupied by nothing, the sight of Sever's portent walls, ugly without benefit of age, called in him a longing for life, for knowledge, for power, and love, ere it were too late. In the distance was the rumble of vernal thunder. Starting...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 4/18/1933 | See Source »

Some exceptions: Giorgi Manuilov's able Still Life of a guitar, lamp, vase and apples. Two noteworthy American Indian mural paintings designed inside semicircle with legs at one end, symbolized heads at the other. Three drypoint etchings by John Taylor Arms, done with the smallest etching needle made...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Escape Artists | 4/17/1933 | See Source »

Sweepings (RKO). Daniel Pardway (Lionel Barrymore) arrived in Chicago soon after Mrs. O'Leary's cow kicked over the lamp. He started a shop in the Loop, hired as general manager a smart Jew (Gregory Ratoff) who climbed across the sock counter out of the crowd at a sale. The shop grew into a huge department store called the Bazaar. Daniel Pardway's wife (Nan Sunderland) died before she had time to share Daniel's greatest disappointment: his children. The oldest. Gene, grew up to be a loose-life; the second son was a Tom Thumb...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Apr. 3, 1933 | 4/3/1933 | See Source »

...choice snakes, which were not stolen from the Lowell House dance two weeks ago, may still be obtained by applying to A. W. Todd '35, Lowell P-32. They are of gorgeous colors: reds, blues, oranges and violets, and cost but $.50. There are also some knotted and twisted lamp posts which make attractive decorations. They cost $1. At the recent House elections, E. K. Salls '34, Todd, and A. D. Cadman '35 were elected to the House Committee...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lowell Snakes For Sale | 3/29/1933 | See Source »

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