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Meanwhile, in the vast metropolitan necropolis, a great city's dead continued to accumulate. Some 200 coffins rested temporarily in vaults; more than 300 were placed in emergency ditches, which two steam shovels were kept busy lengthening.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Cemetery Strike | 8/19/1929 | See Source »

The Florida fruit fly problem rested more heavily at the moment upon Secretary Hyde than it did upon the Board. Florida banks were failing, 24 in a row. A rigid Federal quarantine around the infested areas had imperiled a $60,000,000 fruit crop. Five thousand workers fought the fly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: First Fruit | 8/5/1929 | See Source »

"The U. S. has no effective check on their own boats and their own people engaged in the violation of their own law. If they would follow the Canadian practice [of clearances] they would have a means of control which would in a large measure provide the remedy for the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: Border Argument | 8/5/1929 | See Source »

From Roosevelt Field, L. I., Captain Frank Monroe Hawks of the Texas Co. flew a Lockheed-Vega to Los Angeles in 19 hrs. 10 min. 32 sec. He rested awhile and returned to Roosevelt Field in the fastest transcontinental time?17 hrs.. 38 min., 16 sec. Total flying time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Curtiss-Wright Roc | 7/8/1929 | See Source »

Chief Justice William Howard Taft, cheery, straw-hatted, but looking thin, was pushed through Washington's Union Station last week in a wheelchair, on his way to his summer home in Murray Bay, Canada. Mrs. Taft kept him company in another wheelchair. Exhausted by a trip to Cincinnati and back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jun. 24, 1929 | 6/24/1929 | See Source »

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