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Dates: during 1920-1929
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* Of these 120,000,000,000 a large proportion will be exported, China buying more than any other single country. The French Government, indignant at the popularity shown by U. S. cigarets over its own products, last week gave its factories instructions how to duplicate U. S. brands. These directions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Cigaret Peace | 10/14/1929 | See Source »

It was, therefore, natural that California, wishing to slow up oil production but unable to do so directly by law, should last month make a law limiting the amount of gas oil companies might allow to go to waste at their wells.* Due to varying conditions in different fields, no...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Gas Re-cycled | 10/14/1929 | See Source »

Despite these optimistic predictions, some of the debenture and stockholders who had not agreed to the proposed re-organization hinted that the main trouble lay not in the agricultural conditions but the management. Through a spokesman they said, "We propose to organize a committee to resist the receivership on the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Cuba Cane | 10/14/1929 | See Source »

Married. John Dos Passes, 33, author (Three Soldiers, Manhattan Transfer) playwright (Airways, Inc.), and a Miss Kate Smith; at Ellsworth, Me. Because to him the married state is not an awesome thing, he did not publicize his wedding, which happened some six weeks ago-he could not remember exactly when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Oct. 14, 1929 | 10/14/1929 | See Source »

Died. Jeanne Eagels, 35, legitimactress, cinemactress, onetime (1925-28) wife of Edward Harris ("Ted'') Coy, famed Yale footballer (1909); in Manhattan; not of alcoholic psychosis as reported by Manhattan's assistant medical examiner, but of an overdose of chloral hydrate. At a private sanitarium, to which she...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Oct. 14, 1929 | 10/14/1929 | See Source »

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