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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Famed as leader of "calendar reform" is George Eastman. Last week to his side came Julius Rosenwald's Sears, Roebuck & Co. which announced it will operate next year on a 13-month schedule. To its customers, the introduction of some new month such as "Sol" will mean nothing, but 40...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Sol | 12/23/1929 | See Source »

While a uniform calendar has many advantages, its opponents argue glibly. Cost and confusion of a change would be overwhelming. Religious days such as Easter could not be fixed without the Church's approval. But state and city holidays wishing the new calendar can freely follow Sears, Roebuck's example...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Sol | 12/23/1929 | See Source »

Because this item was widely used, members of the Association were happy. No association of doctors or fussy housekeepers, the Soap Association is composed of powerful soap manufacturers who control about 80% of U. S. production, whose publicizing subsidiary, Cleanliness Institute, during the past three years contributed $3,000,000...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Cleanliness Institute | 12/23/1929 | See Source »

The paths are slim for electrons going at high speed, broader for slower moving ones. This is a phenomenon noted in Professor Floyd Karker Richtmyer's physics laboratory at Cornell University and announced last week. One of his graduate students, Dr. P. H. Carr of Gaffney, S. C., had...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Electronic Engraving | 12/23/1929 | See Source »

Shorter hours, longer pay, group protection, a fixed scale of wages to abolish discriminatory employment-such were the keynotes of a cry for the unionization of the U. S. aviation industry sounded last week by Dale ("Red") Jackson, part-possessor of the world's unofficial endurance refueling record (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Unionization? | 12/23/1929 | See Source »

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