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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...drag net for evidence of the sunken continent will be spread for the most part around the Azores, because in addition to the myths of the past, a recent U. S. Navy surveying expedition brought back bathymetric maps of a submerged plateau with terraced shores in this vicinity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Atlantis | 7/16/1928 | See Source »

Profits. Hupp Motor Car Corp. declared an extra dividend and announced that its net profits for the first six months of 1928 would reach a new record of $4,000,000. The H. H. Franklin Manufacturing Co. (air-cooled motors) resumed dividends on common stock for the first time since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Motor News | 7/9/1928 | See Source »

...Goaded to fury, the Viscountal Daily Mail flung the Post's figures full in its Ducal face. Screamed the Mail: "In close upon two years, the utmost efforts of the Morning Post have succeeded in adding 26,246 copies to its daily net sales. In the same period the net sales of the Daily Mail have risen by 183,579 copies a day." A Harmsworth descended to abysmal (for a ist Viscount) vulgarity, shouted: "No advocacy of the Morning Post can obscure the fact that for fifty years it has been preeminently the organ of 'belowstairs' . . . finds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Duke v. Viscount | 7/9/1928 | See Source »

UNDERWORLD RACKET THE DRAG NET (George Bancroft and Evelyn Brent), LADIES OF THE MOB (Clara Bow and Richard Arlen). These two cinemae were written by Oliver H. P. Garrett, onetime crack reporter of the New York World...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Chart | 7/2/1928 | See Source »

Coincidentally, Packard issued last week its statement for the nine months ending May 31, showing a net profit of $17,803,304 or $5.92 per share of common stock. This is nearly double the earnings for the same period...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Motor Week | 7/2/1928 | See Source »

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