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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...permitting one of its directors to have the jaws of several crocodiles tied shut and the animals starved in this condition in the presence of food until they became ravenous. The denouement was the filming of a scene in which "a dummy made of meat" was thrown to the crocodiles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Horses, Crocodiles | 5/31/1926 | See Source »

...bird more remarkable for vigor than sagacity. This was again proved when the little steamer Sulanierco recently sailed away from Porto Pico followed by a huge black and white eagle soaring high above her wake, disdaining to swoop for scraps thrown by the cook unless they consisted solely of meat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: May 31, 1926 | 5/31/1926 | See Source »

...Celotex" was only one of the many gifts to the explorers. Armour & Co. of Chicago donated considerable beef and preserved bear meat. The Standard Oil gave all the fuel of which need might be expected on the flights...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Celotex, Etc. | 4/26/1926 | See Source »

...dogs, Wilkins did not rest long when he got there, but loaded the Alaskan with dogmeat and gasoline and prepared to fly back over the towering Brooks range (6,000 feet and more). A wireless from the Colville River announced Smith's return to camp with reindeer meat. Wilkins shipped the relief food, piled on more gasoline and flew at once with Eielson ? carrying 3,800 lb. of fuel to start supplying the Barrow base for their major polar flights. The same afternoon he flashed a report of their safe landing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Polar Pilgrims: Apr. 19, 1926 | 4/19/1926 | See Source »

...give you an instance. In negotiating the debt settlement with one of the smaller nations, it was shown that the minimum of existence in that country, a scale at-which the bulk of the peasants are now living, was $31 per man per year. This included no meat, one suit of clothes and one pair of sandals a year. Think what it would mean in the aggregate to us to have that country be able to increase the standard of living there so as to include meat once a week, a cotton shirt once a month, and another pair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Short of force ... | 4/5/1926 | See Source »

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