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A long tin shed. On its floor piles and piles of brown leaves, rows and rows of piles. Down the long rows slowly moves an auctioneer chanting numbers, numbers and more numbers, singsong fashion. Behind him trail the buyers. Every eight, ten. fifteen seconds comes the only refrain that breaks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tobaccoliday | 1/1/1934 | See Source »

To impress the President and Congress, Mrs. Margaret Higgins Sanger Slee called an "American Conference on Birth Control & National Recovery," to meet in Washington Jan. 15-17. Main argument: "With 3,500,000 American families dependent on relief for their bare subsistence, there has arisen an acute need for speed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Nov. 20, 1933 | 11/20/1933 | See Source »

The rotor functions like a spinning baseball or tennis ball. As ball or rotor turns it piles up the wind on one side. A suction develops on the other side. So the ball or rotor moves forcibly in the direction of the suction.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Electricity from Wind | 10/30/1933 | See Source »

"They still shoot a lot but they don't bring us more than eight or nine corpses a day now. We don't need to burn them in piles any more. I guess today we'll have time to wait and bury these in the cool of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CUBA: Sugar & Shooting | 8/28/1933 | See Source »

In the field between the house and the road, the wheat had come up and been harvested. Across the way corn stood four feet high. The inland meadows were dotted with piles of new hay. The cows looked fatter and sleeker than ever. These good sights came under the critical...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Squire At Rest | 8/7/1933 | See Source »

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