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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...region, the coal deposits are on or near the earth's surface. A few country mines are operating. Ranchers have long scraped what they needed for household fires from outcroppings in bluffs and streambeds. Large-scale production can be accomplished by "stripping" the seams from above. Tunnelling will seldom be necessary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: 14 Billion Tons | 11/21/1927 | See Source »

Warning: Inefficient flying schools are graduating men to meet the snowball increase in demand for pilots. Such pilots, seldom hired by reputable airways, must make their living. They fly passengers for cash; their inexperience breeds crashes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Lindbergh Warns | 11/21/1927 | See Source »

Closely held by a small group headed by Chairman G. L. Hartford and President J. A. Hartford, A. & P. shares are almost impossible of purchase. They are seldom quoted-were not last week. Beginning with a unit in Pennsylvania in 1858, these stores now have working capital...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Golden Chains | 11/21/1927 | See Source »

...SHORT HISTORY OF WOMEN-John Langdon-Davies-Viking ($3). It is no compliment to women that histories which deal with their past behavior must be so labeled; histories of the world's affairs seldom include them to any large extent. Of the many histories which have been devoted to women, perhaps this is the most enlightening. It follows the history, not of different individuals, but of women as a class through savagery to their present civilization. Why they differ from men, what they may hope to accomplish; these are the points discussed. Several points are settled, among them this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Women | 11/21/1927 | See Source »

...though they seldom write a line aid vastly in the dissemination of Harvard football news, can scarcely be forgotten. Sitting, nominally at least, at the top of the hierarchy of the H.A.A. publicity department, is S. deJ. Osborne '26, while in college manager of both the football and track team. A step below him stand George Baker '25 and A.M. Blackburn '28, acting publicity direc...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Issues Confidential Guide to Press Box Personalities and Tactics | 11/19/1927 | See Source »

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