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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Humble, hard-toiling, peasant-bred Lancashire has stood for other wage cuts, but this was to the bone. With quiet, orderly determination?with a self-control more intimidating to employers than any show of violence?500,000 steady and skilled workers stopped work on the day the wage cut became effective last week. They are craftsfolk. Out of the question to replace them with scab labor not skilled to spin and weave! The cotton strike, colossal in magnitude, damaging to a dozen allied British trades, world-wide in repercussions, was, at its focus in Lancashire, almost terrifyingly simple: a stark...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Cotton Crisis | 8/12/1929 | See Source »

Died. Otto Floto, 65, of Denver, sports editor of the Denver Post and founder of "The Otto Floto Dog and Pony Show," from which grew the "Sells-Floto Circus"; in Denver...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Aug. 12, 1929 | 8/12/1929 | See Source »

...function and importance of tonsils are much mooted points. Some physiologists claim that the tonsils supply a secretion necessary for the body yet their being cut out causes no unusual symptoms. Others maintain that the tonsils catch bacteria and prevent them getting into the system. Still others show that the tonsils are excellent breeding places for germs. Most agree that their removal does good in many instances, harm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Tonsils | 8/12/1929 | See Source »

Shout Drug, Inc.! at the casual U. S. passerby and he will stare blankly, show no recognition. Yet Drug, Inc. products are familiar to almost every literate U. S. citizen. What do babies cry for but Fletcher's Castoria? What have physicians endorsed for 50 years but Phillips Milk of Magnesia? Of what should one accept no substitute but insist on the genuine but Bayer's Aspirin? What works while you sleep but Cascarets? These and many other household products belong to the Drug, Inc. family. So do 525 Liggett stores. So do 10,000 Rexall stores, which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Drug Family | 8/12/1929 | See Source »

Ruffling the pages of TIME, the editor of O Estado saw that, a week before the Galveston pulchritude show, TIME, conscious of the high hopes in Brazil, had said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Joke | 8/12/1929 | See Source »

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