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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...about 30,000 miles a year, taking in Grange meetings, bee inspections, potato demonstrations. He has been writing his friendly column of anecdotes since the death in 1924 of Obediah Crouthamel (real name: Solomon DeLong), to whose column he was a contributor. Pumpernickle Bill's slogan is: "Fergess net, un schreib alsa mohl" (Don't forget to write sometime). A feature of his column is: "Glawwas Odder Net, Ow'r" (Believe It or Not). Sample...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Pumpernickle Bill | 8/9/1937 | See Source »

...months ending June 30 Hupp Motor Car Corp. last week reported a net loss of $349,966 against a net loss of $479,551 for the first half of 1936. In a year of booming automobile sales this reduction by itself might appear small comfort to an old and long stagnant motor-maker. But the true state of Hupp was discernible last week not in its profit & loss account but in the balance sheet and in its big plant off Detroit's East Grand Boulevard. In both of these stagnation lurked no longer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Hupp Up | 8/9/1937 | See Source »

Having escaped the net of a conventional English education, Anglican religious drill, sports, the life of a country gentleman, marriage, and having enough money to avoid hack work but not enough to become a dilettante. Gibbon's last blessing in disguise (for history's sake, of course, says the biographer) was his failure as a politician. Elected to Parliament two years before the first volume of his history appeared. Gibbon fell in line with Tory policy regarding the American colonies; privately, and especially after reports of the first American victories, his confidence in the Government dropped to zero...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Ugliest Historian | 8/9/1937 | See Source »

...helped form giant Allied Chemical & Dye Corp. in 1920. Mr. Cogswell died in 1921, his wife last year in Manhattan. To her sisters, the middle-aged Misses Elizabeth and Florence Browning of Washington's Mayflower Hotel, the appraisal revealed that Mrs. Cogswell left a net estate of $4,266,548, plus two trust funds, each consisting of 12,966 shares of Allied Chemical and cash, each fund worth about $2,940,000. When either Miss Browning dies, her trust fund will go to her sister, who may dispose of it as she wishes at her death. But at least...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Big Surprise | 8/2/1937 | See Source »

...Awaiting fine traffic from bumper crops in its territory this autumn, Illinois Central R. R. showed net operating income of $6,841,000 for the first half against $5,942,000 in the same six months last year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Earnings | 8/2/1937 | See Source »

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