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Either W. A. Harriman is braver, more far-sighted, more lucky or more reckless than most, for he has just concluded negotiations with the Soviets for control of the Caucasian manganese ore properties (TIME, June 22, RUSSIA). The Harriman interests have acquired a 20-year grant to operate these mines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Russian Manganese | 6/29/1925 | See Source »

Contributing quite as much to this result as the presence of the armada itself was the presence of a bolder, more ferocious spirit. Hitherto, U. S. vessels have sighted rum runners scurrying to shore, have urged them to stop, have even fired a wild shot. But the rum launches, faster...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: The War | 5/25/1925 | See Source »

The Japanese naval tanker Hyatoma has these several years carried oil from California to Yokohama. She trailed the U. S. fleet from San Pedro to San Francisco. She put out from San Francisco on the day the fleet sailed, was several times sighted on the flank of the battleship division...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: Retrospect | 5/11/1925 | See Source »

"Blind Spot." Explorer MacMillan's plea for this assistance was indeed persuasive. In return for two airplanes, he would try to give the U. S. a new continent. North of Alaska and Siberia, from about 120° West Longitude to about 120° East Longitude, and from the 77th...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: MacMillan | 4/20/1925 | See Source »

At Yale there has been inaugurated an Alumni Day during the college term set apart for graduates to come back and find out all that the University is doing, has done, and will do. Yale on that date throws its doors wide to every alumnus, invites him to look through...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COMMON SENSE | 3/27/1925 | See Source »

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