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...course of his monkeyshines, during which he pauses occasionally to juggle, dance, sing, play & tumble, versatile Mr. Cook introduces several hundred startling prop laughs. Always genial and ingratiating, he does everything from lighting Dave Chasen's mustache to making a hole-in-one with a small coal shovel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Oct. 6, 1930 | 10/6/1930 | See Source »

...France and Spain. The Mediterranean region has long been a fertile field for the archeologist's shovel. Although many Stone Age relics have been unearthed there, they have been somewhat neglected for findings of the more brilliant Minoan, Egyptian, Grecian and Roman periods. Feeling that prehistoric man was much smarter than is commonly believed, Charles Gates Dawes, banker, musician, ambassador and archeologist, has been taking a holiday in France and Spain to co-ordinate Stone Age findings. With him went Professor George Grant MacCurdy of Yale University, director of the American School of Prehistoric Research in Europe and Addison...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Diggers | 9/8/1930 | See Source »

...another 5% from railway appliances like joint shims and rail anchors. Yet its chief income is from farm tools, in which it handles 60% of the U. S. trade. Last week this business was expanded when a merger with Kelley Axe & Tool Co. of Charleston, W. Va., and Skelton Shovel Co. of Dunkirk, N. Y., was proposed. American Fork & Hoe is a typical large, closely held company. Its assets are near $10.000,000. Its earnings have never been disclosed to a curious public. President and general manager of the company is George Britton Durell who, in the garden...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Tool Growth | 8/4/1930 | See Source »

...general manager who will figuratively shovel out these tons of bonds may be a "boy"' but is ripe in tradition. King Louis XV of France was "carved" (as His Majesty expressed it) by Surgeon François Quesnay (ancestor) whom the monarch nicknamed Le Penseur for his philosophical cast of mind. The present M. Quesnay might be called a "career man" of the Bank of France. He functioned as chief French technical advisor last year when Rumania's Leu was being stabilized. At the first and second Hague Conference he prepared the whole documental background of the French...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Big Business at Basle | 5/5/1930 | See Source »

...Manhattan, Francisco Boggiamo, 100, when bowled over by an automobile, arose, touched his toes with his hands, went home to shovel snow off the walk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Feb. 17, 1930 | 2/17/1930 | See Source »

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