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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Service, Inc. Riots and sabotage followed the importation of strikebreakers (TIME, July 15). Through New Orleans streets rattled and clanked hundreds of nondescript "taxicabs" ready to carry for 10? a public out of sympathy with the trolley company. A New Orleans ordinance provides that all such conveyances must first post a $5,000 indemnity bond, a requirement which few if any of the taxi operators could or would meet. Last week the City Council prepared to enforce the ordinance, with the almost certain prospect of putting the taxis out of business, of forcing the public back to the empty trolleys...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Blood in New Orleans | 8/26/1929 | See Source »

...babyface killer." On handbills he was listed as "very dangerous." On his head, dead or alive, was a $2,000 reward. He was responsible, said Chicago police, for the hold-up of an Illinois Central train and the murder of a guard; tor the robbery of a Cicero, Ill. post office ot $18,000 and the wounding of a U. S. postal inspector; for the killing of the Chief ot Police of Berwyn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Badly Wanted' | 8/26/1929 | See Source »

Federal. Two men most wanted by the U. S. Post Office Department...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Badly Wanted' | 8/26/1929 | See Source »

...advertisements. Miss McNelis persisted, reminded them that 1929 was Woolworth's 50th anniversary, suggested the advertisements be made to look like Woolworth windows. The executives warmed up. They accepted a campaign which culminated last April in 16 pages, some two-color, some four-color, appearing in the Saturday Evening Post at a cost of $9,500 for the two-color pages, $11,500 for the four-colored. Miss McNelis and her partner, middleaged, competent Hugh Weir, had prepared the advertisements and, of course, collected standard 15% commissions. Woolworth business increased 25% over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: 10 cent Gold Mine | 8/19/1929 | See Source »

...This summer the Brooklyn Eagle revived the oldtime newspaper practice of printing daily weather maps, less for agriculture than for flying. The feature was popular. The Eagle has been flooded with requests for copies of maps. The New York Evening Post and other large newspapers have followed the Eagle's lead, found weather maps good circulation-getters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Sunspots & Drought | 8/19/1929 | See Source »

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