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...Surplus Control Act and another, as everyone knows, was the McNary-Haugen Bill, and another, according to some advisers of the U. S. Farmer, was "Salvation." The name finally applied to it by President Coolidge, as to its predecessor of last year, was, in effect, "Monkey Busi-ness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FARMERS: Fee, Fie, Foe, Farmers | 6/4/1928 | See Source »

...nine cylinders arranged like the spokes of a wheel around the propeller shaft. The cylinders are cooled by the rushing air, but do not themselves revolve (as in other types of air-cooled motors). The significant qualities of the Wright J5 are lightness of weight, simplicity, durability, practical foolproof-ness. It drives almost any airplane at a contented speed of 100 m.p.h., can do 130 m.p.h., depending on the plane and flying conditions. Mr. Lawrance has recently perfected a 525-horsepower, nine-cylinder, air-cooled motor-big brother to the Wright...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: The Air Horse | 2/13/1928 | See Source »

...that you came to France. You came to enjoy life, real life, not the complicated busi: ness which our brains evolve, bui the simple business of eating, drinking, laughing and joking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEROES: In Paris | 10/3/1927 | See Source »

Concluding he complained of being surrounded by spies, whose busi- ness, he contended, was to prevent him from "endangering the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Imperial Vaporings | 9/26/1927 | See Source »

...Story of Gay Leonard-for it is far more her story than Dolly Quinn's - makes one of the better contemporary novels.- She is one of those astonishingly fragile moths, dusted with gold, who first distract football behemoths at col lege proms; then able young busi ness men at country club week ends; then men-about-town, reputable and otherwise. These moths cease to discriminate as their pow er and need of distraction increase. Sometimes they alight safely, their powdery gold dusts away and they become more or less plumply con tented. Other times, especially if their wits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fiction: Aug. 29, 1927 | 8/29/1927 | See Source »

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