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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...simplifying the preparation of the warp threads for the loom and the weaving process. Preparation of the cotton fibre for weaving is a complicated process with too many operations involved. Present mills are seeing and will see a good many simplifications and combinations of these spinning operations (occurring prior to the spooling & warping mentioned above). You might call attention to the above. Correct it on the part of Sherwood Anderson as he is undoubtedly to blame - I noted the same error in a recent issue of Vanity Fair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 12, 1931 | 10/12/1931 | See Source »

...original shock was the gloomy contrast of his now flaccid purse with the sleek one he formerly possessed prior to paying his first term bill. A bill which included the outrageous addition of rent for the Greek Common Room in Adams House of which he has been the sole occupant during the current season. However the latest and by far the most serious situation, as it is entirely a matter of the Vagabond's personal cosmology, centers in and about the anti-macassar atmosphere of Grays 18, home of history and literature. The collegiate play-boy has at last...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 10/8/1931 | See Source »

...pound: "A pillar of civilization has fallen, and it is Socialism that has brought it down." "Just As Much Integrity." Englishmen whistled up their courage. Much was made in the City of the "conspicuously successful," the "very satisfactory" reopening last week of London's 'Change. Prior to this experiment Exchange authorities quietly encouraged impromptu curb trading by brokers in Throgmorton Street. Soon the expected fact appeared that the fall of the pound was occasioning a rise in the price of securities quoted in pounds. Once this law of nature was tested and found to be working properly, London...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Pound, Dollar & Franc | 10/5/1931 | See Source »

...Brazilian red wolf (Chrysocyon brachyurus). Except for Buck and Bill whom alligators killed, the dogs escaped serious mauling by game. Old Jake, 6, their leader, had his right ear clawed by a jaguar. It had to be amputated. Old Jake was responsible for 17 jaguars, six pumas, twelve ocelots. Prior to this Matto Grosso hunt, when he lived in Arizona, he had to his credit 60 pumas. 26 black bears, two grizzlies, bobcats galore. If Old Jake comes out of Brazil alive, Mr. Newell plans to take him next autumn to Siberia to try for long-haired tigers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Hounds v. Big Game | 10/5/1931 | See Source »

While Tycoon Doherty's entrance into the hostelry business was news, hotel men last week were primarily interested in big doings in Manhattan. In the new Waldorf-Astoria there was bustle and excitement, prior to the formal opening...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Grand Hotel | 9/28/1931 | See Source »

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