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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Heating Appliances. Copper wire carries electric energy with very little wastage. A wire made of chromium-nickel or similar alloys, on the other hand, resists the passage of electricity and gets hot. Upon this fact were created the many heating devices displayed at the show: Flat Irons Hot Pads Manglers Toasters Grills Percolators Stoves Waffle Iron- Heaters Curling Irons Radiators Sterilizers and a new device for pressing trousers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Applied Electricity | 10/24/1927 | See Source »

...Henry Ford) would rather raise it than stretch for it. In 1926, Mr. Firestone bought 1,000,000 acres in Liberian jungleland from which, in nine years, he will get his own rubber for his own tires. Now Mr. Firestone's close friend, Henry Ford, has adopted a similar policy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Ford Rubber | 10/24/1927 | See Source »

...clock tonight at the Elysium Club 218 Huntington Avenue. This company of Yale undergraduates spends its summers carrying itself and its stock of puppet actors and actresses around in Ford trucks, cruising from place to place in the New England states, giving entertainments at summer colonies. Performances similar in tone and appearance to Tony Sarg's Marionettes are given with a series of scenes of variety and humor. Miniature sketches of a full orchestra, with a nine inch Koussevitsky conducting, a tiny Paderewski playing a grand piano less than a foot above the floor, and the Old Testament, provide...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Company of Yale Undergraduates Bring Puppet Show to Boston Tonight--Jonah and the Whale Included in Program | 10/20/1927 | See Source »

...southern college is believed to have tried and discarded a similar uniform last year, according to The Dartmouth, but this reported failure has not deterred the Green from trying in a regular game a uniform which has been used in practice with satisfactory results...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Coaches Put Short Pants on Dartmouth--Backs and Ends in Saturday's Contest to Be Dressed Freely and Easily | 10/19/1927 | See Source »

...nature of a routine order. France having lately an- nounced large tariff raises on similar U. S. products, it was mandatory for the U. S. Department of the Treasury-unless otherwise advised by the U. S. Department of State-to reply in kind, under a "countervailing" clause of the Fordney-McCumber Tariff Act of 1922. But in light of the current tariff imbroglio of France and the U. S. (see p. 18), during which the U. S. Department of State had been at pains to explain that the U. S. tariff policy is not discriminatory, newsgatherers naturally went scurrying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Lodge v. Lowman | 10/17/1927 | See Source »

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