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Dates: during 1920-1929
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1% Off

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FISCAL: 1%-0ff | 11/25/1929 | See Source »

Yankee Roberts of Missouri, using a peg, passed down his rows in bounds but he was only taking two rows at a time. Harold Holmes of Rio, Ill, working as though there were no hurry at all, took three rows at once, seldom losing an ear. Tague of Iowa had...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HUSBANDRY: At Renz's | 11/25/1929 | See Source »

The huskers' hands worked like shuttles in two motions?up and down. They tore the ears off the stalks, twisting the instruments on their gloves so as to lay bare the smooth corn kernels. With their free hands they took hold of the bare ears, twisted and snapped off the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HUSBANDRY: At Renz's | 11/25/1929 | See Source »

?Swede Nobel's bequest was $9,000,000. Every year 68% of the income is available for prizes; 22% for "expenses." The remaining 10% is added to the slowly increasing fund. Original Nobel Prizes in 1901 were $40,511. After the War they declined to a low of $30...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Dynamite Prizes | 11/25/1929 | See Source »

During the summer and over winter weekends she leaves this apartment in which her staff can account for her actions and whereabouts during each minute of the day and goes to her Connecticut farmhouse, isolated on a bad road branching off other bad roads. Often she drives there speedily, expertly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Civic Virtue | 11/25/1929 | See Source »

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