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Word: pastes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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With potent finance he was in close touch through Hill School and Yale friends. So as an operating executive he was well qualified when, one year ago. Aviation Corp. of the Americas bought Pan-American Airways, to make his project actual. During the past year he has opened passenger lines from Miami to Nassau, to Cuba and the West Indies as far as Porto Rico (a tourist route), to Central America via Brownsville, Tex. and Mexico City...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: 246 Hours | 7/22/1929 | See Source »

Many an old-sized bill will be saved as a souvenir. Many an old-sized bill has been lost or inadvertently destroyed. From past experience, Treasury officials informally estimate that the U. S. will "profit" by some $100,000,000 on the exchange...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: New Money | 7/15/1929 | See Source »

...gleaming, clanking life guards awaited him. Smiling happily, with a white tea rose on the lapel of his impeccable morning coat, he entered the first carriage with Queen Mary, regal as ever in a gold colored coat and fur-trimmed hat. Through Hyde Park, down Piccadilly the procession trotted, past cheering crowds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Crown | 7/15/1929 | See Source »

Bulgaria's War-time Prime Minister, Vasil Radoslavoff, has spent the past eleven years in exile, with his son-in-law's spare bedroom at Berlin as his base. Last week Exile Radoslavoff, who fled his country when Tsar Ferdinand was forced to abdicate the Bulgarian throne in 1918, was unofficially told that he might return to Bulgaria. The Bulgarian Sobranye (Assembly) had passed the third reading of a bill pardoning those ministers who were condemned to life imprisonment by the government of Alexander Stamboulisky, spectacular peasant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BULGARIA: Professional's Return | 7/15/1929 | See Source »

Springing directly from the Silent Cinema, the Talking Cinema is controlled mainly by strong Silent Cinemen. Great film names, with sound and without, are Fox Film Corp., Paramount-Famous-Lasky Corp., Warner Bros., United Artists. Yet one potent Talking Cinema company backs its speaking present with no silent past. This company is opulent, many-branched Radio Corp. of America. In Photophone it has its own talking mechanism. In RKO Productions, Inc., it has its own production and distribution company. In General Electric and Westinghouse Electric it has tremendous laboratory resources. During 1929-30 there will be made 30 full-length...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Radio into Talkies | 7/15/1929 | See Source »

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