Word: maye
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This sunspot may have something to do with the drought which the past fortnight has afflicted U. S. farmers, restricted the water supplies of many communities (TIME, Aug 12), made tinder for forest fires. Sunspots become active in regular 11-year cycles. Although the present cycle was at its top in 1928, its 1929 decline has been little, according to measurements at the special solar observatories in southern California, Chile, South Africa. But although the earth is now getting more sun heat than normal, that is probably not the whole cause of the 1929 drought. More direct causes were...
Marriage Disclosed. Lenore Ulric, 35, actress (Tiger Rose, Lulu Belle, Mima); to Sidney Blackmer, actor (leading man, Mima); in Westchester County, N. Y.; May...
...idea that other articles than gasoline and oil should be vended from the ubiquitous filling station. An ordinary roadside station may do a gross business of $25,000 a year in gasoline and oil. A city station of the same size may sell three times as much. But whether 200 or 1,000 gallons of gasoline per day gush through a hose into 30 gas tanks, many motorists must wait beside the filling station. While they wait they might as well be sold something...
Today the ordinary country filling station may sell $300 or $400 of tires in a year, but at least one tire company-Firestone-foresees that in the future many if not most tires will be sold by chain tire stores, each part of a master service station in whose several departments specialized brake service, washing and greasing, battery service, will be combined with a filling station and a store for selling electrical equipment...
Such service stations may cost $400,000 or $500,000 apiece. The company which is to establish them must have for sale a wide range of equipment and services. Already Firestone has begun the manufacture of batteries. It is said that Harvey S. Firestone not long since called Harvey Jr. to him and commanded: "Go forth, my son, and buy me an oil company...