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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...other vehicular tunnels are municipal or State projects. Unique, the Detroit &; Canada Tunnel Co. is a private concern. Boosting stock sales last week, its directors announced an investment of $25,000,000, anticipated earnings of some two million dollars a year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRANSPORTATION: Tube to Canada | 11/10/1930 | See Source »

...extensive house plan has been created which will comfortably accommodate all men. The University should look to her students whether in sickness or in health. The estimated cost is six hundred thousand dollars which is not exorbitant when one considers that the price of the House Plan was fifteen million...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A NEW STILLMAN | 11/7/1930 | See Source »

...Haven, Nov. 3--Yale's million-dollar Gothic buildings were made the butt of an attack today by the Harkness Hoot, literary magazine sponsored by two Eli undergraduates. Today's issue was the second the Hoot has published...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harkness Hoot Denounces Yale's New Million-Dollar Gothic Buildings--Attacks "Bogus Elizabethan Mansions" on Campus | 11/4/1930 | See Source »

...Woolworth Co. chain stores-a strategic play for the concentrated women-shopper circulation (TIME. Aug. 19, 1929). Last fortnight saw the appearance of two similar magazines on the counters of S. S. Kresge and S. H. Kress chain stores-testimonials to the idea that a million women who never patronize a newsstand will buy 10? love-fiction, mystery, Hollywood chatter every month in a department store...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Chainstore Reading | 11/3/1930 | See Source »

...Insects are the most numerous and most widespread of all animal species. Entomologists discovered some 8,000 new kinds last year, have classified about 500,000 kinds, estimate that two to ten million kinds exist. True insects have three parts to their bodies-head, thorax, abdomen-and three pairs of legs and, usually, two pairs of wings attached to the thorax. Smallest insects are 1/100 in. long, scarcely discernible to the human eye. There is a chunky beetle (Macrodontia cervicovnis) 6 in. long, and some stick-insects reach 13-in. in length. Insect with the greatest wingspread is the moth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Healing Maggots | 11/3/1930 | See Source »

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