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...trips to Europe, are well appointed laboratories in which Mr. Titterington and his staff analyze much of the food used on the royal table. On a visit to the laboratory in the Abdin Palace, Cairo, I found Mr. Titterington was analyzing a keg of butter, part of a large shipment recently shipped down the Nile to Cairo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 13, 1937 | 9/13/1937 | See Source »

...which enables the battery to discharge itself in any vehicle or spot where its pent-up energy may be needed. The iron used in the batteries comes from Sweden because Swedish iron is unusually free from impurities, but traces of nickel were found however in a $40,000 shipment of Swedish iron which recently reached the Edison factory at West Orange. Dared the company take the chance that this impure iron would cause defective batteries? There was no pure iron available for use. A council of war was called. The minutes of the meeting as reported to the press...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Prescient Edison | 9/6/1937 | See Source »

...bill to regulate wages and hours in U. S. industry and ban interstate shipment of goods produced by child labor. Passed by the Senate, the bill was reported favorably by the House Labor Committee but kept off the floor by a clique of Southern members of the Rules Committee. As chairman of Labor's Non-Partisan League, John L. Lewis of C. I. O. denounced the House Committee Wages & Hours tie-up, threatened to form a new party to effect social legislation if the Democratic Party failed to do so. William Green of A. F. of L., no real...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Work Undone | 8/30/1937 | See Source »

...shipment had been sent too late, for the same day a French squadron of bombing planes droned low over Amouda, dropped their explosives on ramshackle huts. Motorized infantry units swept into the village to mop up, and the planes roared away to disperse Kurd concentrations in three other villages...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Syrian Headache | 8/23/1937 | See Source »

...drugs and cosmetics, including those named, arrived not at Broadway & 34th Street but in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., where it soon filled a large window and several counters in the "Boston Store" of Fowler, Dick & Walker. Wilkes-Barre citizens, dripping from an all-day downpour, bought 15% of the shipment on the first day. For retailers in general this was interesting news. For manufacturers of "national brands'' it was the latest package of perturbation from Macy's. Tentatively, but none the less clearly, the department store had entered their own field...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Macy's in Wilkes-Barre | 8/23/1937 | See Source »

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