Word: obtaining
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Versailles, where the case was tried, the magistrate found that "Louis de Bourbon" was sufficiently sincere, that he had not obtained the money on false pretenses, that "he had acted in perfect good faith in striving to obtain the succession to Louis XVI." Mme Heitz had to be satisfied with...
...books are news. Unless otherwise designated, all books reviewed in TIME were published within the fortnight. TIME readers may obtain any book of any U. S. publisher by sending check or money-order to cover regular retail price ($5 if price is unknown, change to be remitted) to Ben Boswell of TIME, 205 East 42110. St., New York City. Champion
...monopoly operating in restraint of trade. They illustrated the social usefulness of small "scalpers" thus: New Jersey's Governor Morgan F. Larson last week visited Manhattan with a party of 15 to attend Earl Carroll's Vanities, popular legshow on which the Law has frowned. Unable to obtain sufficient tickets from League brokers he resorted to "scalpers." If "scalpers" are scotched, Attorney Sandier pointed out, last-minute theatre parties such as Governor Larson's will be impossible. Attorney General Ward pondered, unofficially suggested that the best solution was Producer White's, that tickets should be sold...
...spreading when from Waterbury, Conn, were reported some chicks which had hatched out in fur instead of feathers. Investigation proved this to be the work of a copycat, however, not a real migration of fabulous fauna. One Louis Mortison, reporter for the Waterbury Republican, apparently thought he could obtain for Waterbury the same sort of publicity that Stone's stories had brought Winsted. He named the hero of all his stories Lester Green. His stories have received fair but not great circulation, some of them being rather dull. Last week, for example, Lester Green, to save spraying, grafted...
Siemens & Halske's beryllium has been manufactured by a slow electrolytic process. The Schwarz process is a heat treatment. From a ton of beryl ore costing $100, Metallurgist Schwarz says he can obtain 100 Ib. of pure beryllium. The ore is plentiful in New Hampshire. New York, the Carolinas, Colorado, usually being found with feldspar deposits...