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Word: specials (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Senate continued its struggle with the Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act. Minute seemed the possibility that it would even begin to debate schedules before the closing of the special session. Yet Senators, unmindful or unworried, last week made little tariff progress, went instead down two attractive bypaths. One bypath was the issue of Philippine Independence (see p. 17). Another was the issue of censor ship, by U. S. Customs officials, of allegedly obscene books imported to U. S. shores...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE TARIFF: Obscenity Bypath | 10/21/1929 | See Source »

Central Alloy Steel Corp. Plans of Cleveland's Cyrus S. Eaton to form a giant alloy and special steel company were rumored when last week the Central Alloy Steel Corp. with which Mr. Eaton is identified, acquired the Interstate Iron and Steel Co. Central Alloy is the dominant U. S. producer of alloy steels. Interstate is a large manufacturer of iron and steel bars and general wire products, with plants adapted to the production of alloy steels. Donner Steel Co. is another manufacturer of special steels recently Eatonized...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Deals: Oct. 21, 1929 | 10/21/1929 | See Source »

...theatres throughout the U. S. audiences heard this message delivered through Fox Movietone. The birthday gift was advice that Fox patrons buy outright as many shares as they could afford of Fox Theatres Corp.* operating and holding company for his gigantic chain. As special inducement they were told of plans for future expansion and the large earnings that were possible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Fox Jubilee | 10/21/1929 | See Source »

...Kinley, famed for their fire-fighting technique. After two days of slow progress, the Kinleys succeeded in removing the twisted debris of the derrick and in placing a gelatin bomb near the well's flame-spouting mouth. The same moment that an electric contact ignited the bomb a special battery of boilers threw live steam on the blaze, snuffed it out. Grim and taciturn, the Kinley boys glanced up as the explosion took place, then plodded away without looking back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Oil | 10/21/1929 | See Source »

Author Eipper's special plea is that animals in zoos be given space. Like Noah, he also insists there should be two at least of every kind. He concludes: "I have written this book to show, not why or what, but how animals really are. . . . You will find . . . documents of reality, just as are the photographs that reflect life in its pages. . . . Brothers of Life, great and small-the animals look...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Wild Life | 10/21/1929 | See Source »

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