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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Beep! Beep!" is to U. S. citizens the nearest phonetic approach to the sound of a certain type of motor horn. To Londoners, ''Beep! Beep!'' is the familiar cry of the cat's meat men, picturesque peddlers who sell to thrifty housewives not the meat of cats but little skewers stuck with carefully diced meat for cats. Last week Britons were startled to learn that at least one cat's meat man is not only picturesque but opulent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Cat's Meat | 11/11/1929 | See Source »

Explained the Ford Motor Co.: "We are reducing prices now because we feel that such a step is the best contribution that can be made to assure a continuation of good business throughout the country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Ford Week | 11/11/1929 | See Source »

Last week Minister Pitamitz sped by motor from Washington to Cleveland. There the Museum authorities received him with great formality. Ceremoniously they gave the diptych back to Jugoslavia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ART: Modigliani's Mode | 11/11/1929 | See Source »

...criminal is sentenced for a felony in which the judge has any discretion as to the sentence, a psychiatrist report must be filed as part of the court record. Until such a report is filed no felon is to be released. Resolutions were passed in favor of a uniform motor vehicles law, a uniform "blue sky" law (controlling sales of securities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: At Memphis | 11/4/1929 | See Source »

Tailless Plane. A triangular shaped "stork" plane, lacking conventional tail structure, flew 78 m.p.h. with a 8-h.p. motor, at Berlin. Its constructor, Alexander Lippisch, thus approximated the flying goal of an all-wing ship...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Flights & Flyers: Nov. 4, 1929 | 11/4/1929 | See Source »

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