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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sale of radios reaches its peak just before a prize fight (women buy on instructions from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Store News | 7/23/1928 | See Source »

...grandest poloists in the world. He made famous the hit in midair, and it became known as a "Lacey." His appearance in the U. S. in 1926 was a sensation and a popular one. Last year he was operated on for appendicitis, but his game has been at its peak ever since. With him the Argentine looms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Polo | 7/16/1928 | See Source »

Down the side of Pike's Peak, Col., coming at a precipitous rate of speed, with an enormous roar, was seen last week a hairy and runtlike Negro. On reaching the bottom, 48 minutes after he had left the top, the Negro said that he had broken the record for coming down Pike's Peak and that his name was Dolphus Stroud...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Poor Jose | 7/9/1928 | See Source »

...Goff beat Candidate Hoover. It was a preferential primary, leaving the delegates uninstructed, and three of the 19 delegates elected were regarded as Hooverites. But the popular vote stood-Goff 120,337; Hoover, 105,876. The usual comments were made: 1) That the Hoover boom had passed its peak, would now collapse; 2) That the Beaver Man had made a splendid showing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Delegates | 6/11/1928 | See Source »

...when William Crapo Durant, stock market operator and motor manufacturer, sailed for Europe seven weeks ago, he said nothing striking. And yet he is one of the headiest bulls of the present market (which many sane economists believe is at a peak...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Bull | 6/11/1928 | See Source »

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