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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Parker-Cramer has never advertised nor practised a "Pay as you Pass" system, or a sliding scale rate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 4, 1937 | 1/4/1937 | See Source »

...flight. Last week, in the December number of the Uni-versity of California Alumni Monthly, an article called Doctors, Insects and Air Routes explained a new harbor hygiene against inbound contagion. To halt immigration of any more such pests as the corn-borer, Japanese beetle or red scale, the U. S. Public Health Service insists that all planes from South America or Asia must be sprayed. Pan American Airways conscientiously sprays its Pacific Clippers with a pyrethrum extract at each stop. Aircraft from Canada and Europe, where pests and diseases are rarer than in the plague-laden Orient, are merely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Air Hygiene | 12/28/1936 | See Source »

...paper!" Heartening to A. N. P. A. men was a strong message last week from their directorate, urging them to treat with no American Newspaper Guildsmen or any other editorial employe group, grant no "preferential" employment regulations, arbitrate no dismissals, fix no wages on a definite time scale "regardless of the quality of work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESS: Stern v. A. N. P. A. | 12/21/1936 | See Source »

...drawn and called by the banker: "The game of bingo in this diocese has ceased to be a harmless pastime. Whatever financial profits it may yield and whatever may be said in extenuation of it as a diversion, it cannot escape severe censure as outright gambling on a large scale. It is growing daily. The stakes are mounting higher and the gambling fever is rising with them. ... It is scandalizing the faithful and bringing contempt on religion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Bingo Banned | 12/21/1936 | See Source »

...present-day methods of forestry. Now more models are being made by Mr. Cline for the suggested Fisher Museum of Forestry. All very intricate, but not as much as the work of the men in the studios. Some forming trees of fine copper wire as they look at scale drawings. The needles of the conifers and leaves of the deciduous trees are of sheet copper. Sore at heart that I am so empty-headed on nature. Watch the workmen attach the needles and leaves to a wire, first twisting each into boughs. Many single wires are twisted for the bare...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE VAGABOND | 12/14/1936 | See Source »

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