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...Hosiery will show women how silk stockings are woven. Quaker Oats Co. will steam, roll, pack 100 cases of breakfast food per hour. Only inactive spot will be the airy, peaceful TIME-FORTUNE building, carefully designed as "A Place to Sit Down" and containing the world's biggest rack of current periodicals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATES & CITIES: Chicago's Party | 5/22/1933 | See Source »

...buck & wing. A bedspring rises on end. Mickey twangs the strings and it becomes a harp. Anything may take on life and humanity, express itself. A singing bird does its scales like a tyro, gulps, quivers and heaves like a diva, perches on the sheet music on the piano rack and turns the pages. The dog chases the cat through a clothes wringer. Both come through flattened out like sheet iron, go leaping on, smack into a fence which jolts them back into three dimensions. Nothing in a Disney cinema is ever entirely dead, nothing ever dies, nothing is impossible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Profound Mouse | 5/15/1933 | See Source »

...made president in recognition of the fact that in the last five years he has doubled Fierce-Arrow's share of sales in the fine car market. This spring the company produced mainly for exhibition purposes a $10,000 "Silver Arrow" model without exterior gadgets (spare tires, luggage rack, etc., etc.), with enclosed wheels and scientific streamlining to reduce wind resistance 35%, hailed as forecast of the cars of 1940. Fierce-Arrow is not affected by the receivership of Studebaker which owns a block of Fierce-Arrow stock, for Fierce-Arrow has its own capital structure, no outstanding bonds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Personnel: Apr. 24, 1933 | 4/24/1933 | See Source »

Thus bouncing around on the trunk rack the would-be assassin of the next President rode first to the hospital to unload his victims, then to Miami's skyscraper jail where he was stripped and safely locked up on the 21st floor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Escape | 2/27/1933 | See Source »

Last week Denver's leading 'legger, a little grocer named Joe Roma, sat plunking his mandolin in front of a music rack in his home. While a pot of spaghetti was bubbling in the kitchen, some unknown persons called. When they rose to go they filled Joe Roma with so many .38 and .45 slugs that the police could not count the holes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Mandolin Murder | 2/27/1933 | See Source »

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