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...five-year industrialization plan] to do things on an American scale, but insolence on a scale like this we never expected from people who ought to realize that they represent an important State administration. When Mr. Fish asks the American Government to demand the right of investigation of our lumber camps we can only reply : 'Take your feet off the table, Mr. Representative, you are not in your own home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Mr. Fish . . . Not at Home! | 2/2/1931 | See Source »

...Horrors." Among Britain's most militant anti-Reds is able Sir Hilton Young. He wants Soviet lumber excluded from Great Britain under the Foreign Prison Made Goods Act of 1897. To prove that Soviet lumber is convict-hewn, Sir Hilton recently submitted to the Prime Minister sworn statements by three Russian refugees that they as "convicts" had been "forced" to cut wood in Russian forests, had witnessed "horrors" (TIME, Sept...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Mr. Fish . . . Not at Home! | 2/2/1931 | See Source »

...long-used mind, the mind of one past middle-age, and you will realize how pure and white and glistening and untouched it is. Imagine the trodden, trampled, often miry footpaths, (no, thought-paths) of a long-used mind, pitted with grievances, scarred with ugliness, cumbered with useless lumber, strewn with outworn hopes, clouded with disappointments and with sorrows, rusty with neglected opportunities, creaking with dismal hopeless habits. And then imagine the little lustrous honeycomb of cells of pearly pearly white that my son Simon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Winter's Child | 12/8/1930 | See Source »

...equity in the total cost, Sears, Roebuck furnishing the rest on a first-mortgage payable monthly for 15 years. Investigations of prospective customers are made and no home will be sold which is considered beyond the prospect's means. Family budgets are also furnished. The lumber is sent readycut and marked, labor furnished from the locality (until this year, labor was not included). The homes vary from three to nine rooms, cost from $3,500 to $20,000 including everything except furniture. Sears, Roebuck sells that too. Stock designs are kept for milk houses, stables, silos, summer camp bungalows...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Honor Bilt | 11/10/1930 | See Source »

...eclipse they had to dare a difficult landing, pack themselves and their apparatus upon the inhabitable two square miles of Niuafou with the Polynesians. For baggage they carried materials for one 65-ft. and one 63-ft. camera, numerous smaller cameras, food for two months, spectroscopes, lumber, notebooks. Setting up their apparatus they tested it for a month in advance, rehearsed their parts. Rain and mist for 93 sec. at the time of the eclipse would have ruined everything...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Tin Can Party | 11/3/1930 | See Source »

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