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Some ingenious persons covered the John Harvard statue last night with a coat of tar. The same persons, presumably, marked a large '87 on the wall at the entrance of the chapel...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THROUGH THE YEARS | 11/16/1934 | See Source »

...begun before the 1933 crop turned out to be the biggest in history-nearly 30,000,000 bags. And all the world can use is 25,000,000 bags per year. But President Armando Vidal Leite Ribeiro of Departamento Nacional do Café made more briquets from coffee and tar, fired bigger mountains of beans, shoveled more bags into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Grandest Destruction | 10/1/1934 | See Source »

...road is on a foundation of reinforced concrete which is being hauled to the premises ready mixed and then spread in truck loads. After the concrete is poured it is believed that the final surfacing will be one of a tar macadam nature, similar to the other streets of Cambridge...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Street Resurfacing Project In Front Of Union Will Take At Least Three Weeks More | 9/27/1934 | See Source »

...quarries was cut the stone that built the Federal Reserve Bank Building in Cleveland, the Bok Carillon Tower at Mountain Lake, Fla., the Harding Memorial at Marion. He promised $30,000 worth of Georgia Pink. A nationwide competition will decide how Brer Rabbit, Brer Fox, Brer B'ar, Tar-Baby, Uncle Remus and the Little Boy will appear in Sam Tate's marble...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Uncle Remus Memorial | 8/20/1934 | See Source »

...families suffered high mortality. Rarely has a poor person died of the disease, rarely a Negro. Finding out why became Dr. Roy Rachford Kracke's job at Emory University, Atlanta. Clever reasoning led him to suspect certain new-fangled pain-killing drugs manufactured from benzamine derivatives of coal tar. Negroes, who seldom complain of minor aches or pains, do not use those drugs. Poor people cannot afford them. Doctors get them as free samples. "We have seen few physicians," said Dr. Kracke last week, "who do not have a package of allonal, amytal compound, peralga, or other such drugs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Doctors in Cleveland | 6/25/1934 | See Source »

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