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Dates: during 1920-1929
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In its new Manhattan Building met last week the Executive Committee of Tammany Hall to discuss such routine things as a contribution to national Democratic deficit. Finally Secretary Eagan asked the chairman for permission to read a letter. He read: "Because of ill health and on advice of physicians I...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTE: Olvany Out | 3/25/1929 | See Source »

If anyone can keep a glider, i.e., a motorless airplane, in the air for 20 hours, he can win a $3,000 prize and kudos; for ten hours, $2,000 and cheers. Such were the offers made last week by Edward S. Evans, Detroit manufacturer and founder of the National...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Gliders | 3/25/1929 | See Source »

It is possible for a handy amateur to build a glider out of spruce or pine, wire, and fabric. Design is quite like that for a monoplane. (One popular German model amazingly resembles a Lockheed-Vega.) Wingspan may be up to 65 feet (span of a staunch commercial Ford trimotored...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Gliders | 3/25/1929 | See Source »

Progress. The experts at Paris were understood to have agreed, last week, that $100,000,000 will represent the working capital of the proposed Bank of International Settlement. If and when established the Bank will act as a corporate trustee for the stupendous volume of German payments-the idea being...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Cash Talk | 3/25/1929 | See Source »

Up to last week over 12,000 "egg packers" (wholesalers) had registered with the Daily Mail a pledge to deal only in "Empire Eggs." As the newspaper of world's largest circulation (2,000,000) the Mail lavishly placed in the window of every shopkeeper whose "egg packer" had...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Eggs! Eggs! Eggs! | 3/25/1929 | See Source »

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