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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Pierre S. du Pont: Perfect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTE: Warrior to War | 2/3/1936 | See Source »

Apart from such reservations against schemes concocted overseas, His Majesty has said: "The peace of the world depends upon the friendly association of the two great English-speaking peoples. Only the United States and Great Britain working together and in perfect harmony can pre vent the world from drifting into helpless anarchy and barbarism. That is the true mission of our two peoples. I have thought about it a great deal and I know of no other way out." Analysis of Edward. Decidedly up-to-date, new King Edward analyzes men by the standards of science and, thus analyzed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Gentlemen, the Kings! | 2/3/1936 | See Source »

...from Newark Airport one noon last week climbed The Southerner, American Airlines' crack transcontinental transport. Southward it flew through perfect flying weather, halting briefly for passengers at Philadelphia, Washington, Nashville. Aboard the 11-ton, twin-motored Douglas was W. R. Dyess, WPAdministrator for Arkansas, on the way home. Partners W. S. Hardwick and David A. Chernus, engineers, and wealthy young Frank C. Hart, head of Hartol Products Corp., were making business trips. Young Charles Altschul, nephew of New York's Governor Herbert H. Lehman, amused himself by experimenting with his new candid camera. Mrs. Samuel Horovitz of Boston...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Into Arkansas Loblolly | 1/27/1936 | See Source »

Last week the Society of Automotive Engineers, meeting in Detroit, installed as its new president able, burly Ralph Rowe Teetor, vice president and research director of Perfect Circle Co. (piston rings). This topflight engineer saw none of the charts which accompanied technical discussions. He is totally blind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: I See | 1/27/1936 | See Source »

...Teetor enterprise has changed its name several times and switched from railroad equipment to automobile engines to piston rings. It became the Perfect Circle Co. in 1918, is now the biggest U. S. maker of piston rings (capitalization $1,625,000), turning out 300,000 "perfect circles" a day. It has more Teetors than Sun Oil has Pews. Hagerstown has less than 2,000 inhabitants, but a third of them work for Perfect Circle and the town has no unemployment. Perfect Circle mail grew so heavy that little Hagers-town got an $80,000 post office...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: I See | 1/27/1936 | See Source »

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