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...thanks to TIME for placing provocative Current Affairs Test on last six pages. It makes it so easy to rip out and consign to the nearest wastebasket without disturbing balance of magazine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 13, 1936 | 7/13/1936 | See Source »

...Knights of Columbus have taken a blistering oath to rip out the wombs of Protestant women, crush their children's skulls, maim and strangle their sons & husbands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Haters & Baiters | 3/23/1936 | See Source »

...good steelman can think of nothing more unpleasant in his industry than a rip-roaring price war. Such a thing has never happened in the U.S. since the Elder Morgan promoted U.S. Steel Corp. in 1901. On the subject of prices the typical 1936 steelman feels that the best status is the status...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Prices & Bases | 3/23/1936 | See Source »

With President Conant speaking at the Tercentenary meeting at Sanders next Friday, consternation was great at the discovery of a fullfledged nest in the southeast wall and a host of winged inmates taking their morning flyer around the rostrum. Muddled maintenance men had to rip up a section of the plaster and lathing before the conquest...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: M.M.M. CONQUER B.B.'S AFTER DOWNING A WALL IN SANDERS | 3/14/1936 | See Source »

...Gold Rush of '49. To Daniel Hale Haskell, an Adams Express clerk, this was a great enticement, which soon led him off to start a California branch. In June 1852, Samuel P. Carter arrived in San Francisco to be general agent for Wells, Fargo & Co. There followed a rip-roaring battle between the two express companies. From it, Writer Wilson has neatly plucked the vivid incidents, paid little attention to dullish corporate detail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Wells Fargo | 3/2/1936 | See Source »

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