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There are only two directions in Hawaii?makai, toward the sea, and mauka, toward the mountains. Last week all Hawaiians were looking makai. Somewhere below the horizon a sleek grey cruiser was slicing its way westward through the long swells of the Pacific. Aboard was the most distinguished visitor to the islands since Explorer-Captain James Cook first stepped ashore 156 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TERRITORIES: Hoomalimali Party | 7/23/1934 | See Source »

Last week Temperature Corp. opened its doors to the public in a sleek, black-walled showroom in Manhattan's Chrysler Building. Banker friends of Walter Chrysler Sr. dropped in the first day to shake hands with his son. Hotel managers popped in to have a look at the little, air-cooling, air-washing, dehumidifying device which Temperature Corp. will sell for $175 plus installation and condensing unit. "Airtemp" will be manufactured in Detroit by Amplex Manufacturing Co., a division of Chrysler Motors. Standing less than three feet high, the cabinet is attached to an ordinary electric base plug and water...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Temperature Corp. | 7/23/1934 | See Source »

...appearance he is a tall, sleek theatrical figure with black hair, a tail coat, and glasses on a broad black ribbon. He is a Roman Catholic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 16, 1934 | 7/16/1934 | See Source »

...ridge sailed Richard Chichester du Pont, 24-year-old son of Vice President Alexis Felix du Pont of E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co., in his new sailplane Albatross II which he and Gliderman Hawley Bowlus had designed & built in California. Like a great flying fish, sleek in the sun, Albatross II soared out over the valley, circled back over the ridge, climbed higher & higher on a thermal current. By staying in the air five hours young du Pont would get his "D" license, held by only one other U. S. pilot, John K. (''Jack...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics: Wings of the Wind | 7/9/1934 | See Source »

...honor His Majesty. Reclining on a divan the King of Kings ate Turkish delight off a onetime Sultan's silver salver and puffed cigarets made for the occasion by the Turkish Tobacco Monopoly which had stamped on each the Persian Royal Arms. Meanwhile spry Turks in the sleek-tailed, Frenchified dress suits affected by President Kemal one-stepped and black-bottomed in a fashion to make the King of Kings blink. Stoutly, Persian courtiers insisted to their jewel-bedecked Turkish partners, on whose toes they had a tendency to tread, that "His Majesty is of ancient lineage, the noblest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Brothers in Islam | 7/2/1934 | See Source »

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