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...process devised by John Woods Beckman, Oakland, Calif., industrial chemist, proves commercially practicable, people will have tiny "bugs" to thank for their soap, salad oil, synthetic hot dogs,* margarin, shortening and such commercial products as Mazola, Wesson Oil, Snowdrift, Crisco, Nuco Butter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Oil by Bugs | 4/7/1930 | See Source »

...that he, his son and Mme. Trotsky must pack up their possessions and prepare to leave Russia. Soon all were bundled into a motor bus and since the snow was all but impassable a tractor was attached to pull the bus. Presently bus, tractor and Trotskys sank into a snowdrift. Seven hours were spent in extricating the exiles and conveying them by sledge to the nearest railway station, Pechweke Peke...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Exile Trotsky | 3/11/1929 | See Source »

Wesson Oil & Snowdrift Co., (Oil for lettuce and shortening for pies) net, (quarter ending Nov. 30, 1928) $629,255. Previous year (quarter ending...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Earnings: Mar. 11, 1929 | 3/11/1929 | See Source »

...held Sergey McTavish by the collar of his astrakhan tunic and the seat of his breeches, kicking and wriggling like a retriever pup. Then he swung the boy up level with his shoulder and threw him sprawling on a snowdrift...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: All Round Europe | 12/3/1928 | See Source »

...Behoover." A "staff correspondent" of the arch-Republican New York Herald Trib une described Bellhaven Behoover as an "eager-eyed scion of champion collie stock ... a seven-month-old sable and white collie, the sable a lustrous golden brown and the white like the fluffed ala baster of a snowdrift at dawn."* Son of Triple Champion Bellhaven Braveheart and Multiple Champion Bellhaven Blossom time, grandson of Bellhaven Starboat Strongheart ("greatest collie of all time"), young Bellhaven Behoover was valued at $1,000. But Mrs. Ilch said that, for Mrs. Hoover, "nothing was too good." Her idea was, of course, that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The President-Elect | 11/26/1928 | See Source »

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