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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Many a Congressman, too, drifted into the hearing to do special battle for some pet product grawn in his district...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FISCAL: Schedule 7 | 2/11/1929 | See Source »

...Keith Memorial Theatre, eradicates within the first two minutes the conviction that because Harry Lauder showed a large number of gratis guests from Harvard how bad a Scotch comedian could be, that a burr was nothing more than another reason for seeing Doctor Means. Fyffe is a consummate actor, product of the English school of generous gesture. He is as far removed from American vaudeville standards as Ruth Draper or George Arliss. Last night he gave three portraits: an old man, a sailor, and a mildly intoxicated inciter of the proletariat. These are fat material, and Fyffe has brought...

Author: By G. K. W., | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 1/31/1929 | See Source »

Prohibition, on the other hand, has not been the product of war hatreds. There is, therefore, not likely to be any such revulsion of feeling as occurred on the subject of reconstruction. It is to be hoped that the question will be ultimately decided not on the basis of feeling but on the basis of an intellectual understanding of the problem and a judicious weighing of the advantages and disadvantages of various attempts to control what all fair minded persons acknowledge to be at the present time a great evil. Every civilized country is trying by one method or another...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CARVER BELIEVES PROHIBITION IS GAINING FORCE | 1/30/1929 | See Source »

...Amaral sketched a diagram showing the entire development and distribution of the serum and emphasized the fact that the serum produced is a mixture of antivenin produced from all species of snakes in the country, so that a single product can be shipped to all parts of North America. The institute at Glenolden, Pennsylvania, is the central one for the United States and Canada, but the snake farm in Brazil produces the largest amount of the serum...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Brazilian Authority on Snake-Bite Antitoxin Discusses Serums--Hindus Prefer Death to Harming Sacred Cobra | 1/29/1929 | See Source »

...years experiments have been made in an effort to devise an automobile engine which could use fuel oil, rather than the more refined product, gasoline. Mitten Management, Inc. (operating buses and taxicabs in Philadelphia) has developed the "gas generator," has tested it on 20 buses, traveling 300,000 miles of hilly country. Last week Mitten Vice President J. A. Queeney said that he was ready to use fuel oil in 600 buses, 3,000 taxicabs; advised all U. S. bus operators to use fuel oil if they want to save $50,000,000 yearly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Fuel | 1/28/1929 | See Source »

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