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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Allah is great Hui juxtaposition is greater" runs an old proverb, and it was with a similar thought in mind that the Cambridge police and fire chiefs cast glowering looks around the Gold Coast and the Lampoon Building, upon the occasion of a false alarum rung in, on the alarum box standing besides the Jester's tree at 11.20 0'clock last night...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GLANCE AROUND NOW AND CHOOSE THE NEAREST EXIT | 12/20/1928 | See Source »

...increase of $5,000,000. But he was not downhearted. Establishing and popularizing the Air Mail had been an extraordinary expense. Some day the Air Mail may more than pay for itself and, anyway, it is a valuable encouragement to U. S. aeronautics. Mr. New urged that similar encouragement be given the U. S. Merchant Marine by extending U. S. mail contracts to U. S. shippers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: New Report | 12/17/1928 | See Source »

...Sales directed at business and college men have made Command-Aire a leader in the industry. *At $2,400 without motor. TIME, Dec. 3, erroneously printed the price as $24,000. †The Gypsy is the third British motor to be made in this country The others: Cirrus, similar to the Gypsy; the Bristol Jupiter air-cooled radial...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Chicago Show | 12/17/1928 | See Source »

...Gray beam. In 1904, one Henry Gray took out patents on this beam, which is rolled from one piece of steel instead of being made from several pieces riveted together. In 1926, U. S. Steel began the construction of a plant in Homestead, Pa., for the making of beams similar to the Gray beams. Thereupon Eugene Gifford Grace, Bethlehem president, announced that the Gray patents were still in force and that the making of Gray beams by a Bethlehem competitor constituted a patent infringement. Ensued a Bethlehem-U. S.Steel controversy which the courts are now called upon to settle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Patent War | 12/17/1928 | See Source »

...Author. War-author Zweig was intimately acquainted with Flanders lice and oaths and mud, having wallowed thirteen months at Verdun. On the Eastern front he knew similar nastiness, saw deeper implications. A German Jew, 41, he has studied French and English literature, translated much of Kipling's verse. He is no relation to Stefan Zweig, the popular modern who adapted Ben Jonson's Volpone for the Theatre Guild...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Coffin to Coffin | 12/17/1928 | See Source »

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