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In a mad stampede to stock up before the tax becomes law, dealers have kept the soap works running night & day. Warehouses are crammed. Retailers have passed the word on to housewives and bathroom shelves are piled high. The trade is usually stocked for about a fortnight but the supply...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Stampede to Soap | 5/7/1934 | See Source »

The suds, explained the Belgian scientist, are in disequilibrium, some whipped by a cosmic repulsive force (expressed by the constant lambda), some clutched at by the attractive force which earthlings know as gravity. While some bubbles swell and others contract, still others, unstably balanced between the two forces, are in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Soapsuds & Sunspots | 12/4/1933 | See Source »

Administrator Johnson flew back to Cleveland, stopped there for some lamb chops and beer. Asked a newshawk: "What will happen to objectors who won't go along with this new code?" Wiping suds from his lips. General Johnson snapped: "They'll get a sock right on the nose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDUSTRY: Sock on the Nose | 8/7/1933 | See Source »

Jewel Robbery (Warner Bros.) recommends to tycoons' velvet-cased wives and to wellspoken jewel robbers that they get together. Kay Francis is a Viennese who has a husband and a lover but is looking for a Man. She identifies herself as "shallow and weak" but a Woman. After a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Aug. 1, 1932 | 8/1/1932 | See Source »

California gold attracted and European revolutions drove the Michelson family from their home at Strelno, Germany. Albert Abraham, then two, was just beginning to distinguish between German, Yiddish and Polish phrases. Nevada silver made the family pause at Virginia City, made with the Comstock Lode. There in 1869 Charles Michelson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Light & Death | 5/18/1931 | See Source »

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