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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Cream. Manufacturers who produced 84,000,000 gallons of ice cream last year (three quarts for every person in the U. S.) reported to the Department of Commerce that more than half their customers demanded vanilla flavor. One-tenth would take chocolate, one-twelfth strawberry. The remaining customers took the various flavors put together by the dispensers. One-eighth ate brick cream, seven-eighths the more familiar bulk. Million a Day. Speyer & Co. with J. & W. Seligman & Co. bought 245,000 shares constituting control of Victor Talking Machine Co. from its President Eldridge R. Johnson a fortnight ago (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Business Notes, Jan. 3, 1927 | 1/3/1927 | See Source »

...painting a fence. Blood squirted from a gash over Walker's eye. In the ninth round he knocked Flowers down again but the black man, with a grin of ebony, bounced from the canvas and hacked at Walker's snout. The gong ended the tenth. The crowd in the Chicago Coliseum waited. Referee Yanger raised Walker's hand, gave him the middleweight championship of the world, amid the boos and groans of those who thought Flowers had the best...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Boxing | 12/13/1926 | See Source »

This wide and deep enthusiasm for the Diary inevitably brings to public attention Count Keyserling's new book,* which, unfortunately, is about one-tenth as readable. In it, the state of wedlock has been treated as a musical theme is treated to turn it into a symphony. Count Keyserling is the conductor. To the woodwinds of psychoanalysis, the percussives of aristocracy, the bass viols of biology, the brass of anthropology, the muted strings of art and mysticism, are assigned various parts. The players include-besides several German savants little known in the U. S. -Havelock Ellis, Rabindranath Tagore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NON-FICTION: Wedlock | 11/29/1926 | See Source »

...cost, received only $80,000 donations through its alumni fund last year. In order to provide against future impoverishment, William Vinton King, Chairman of the Board of the Columbia Trust Co., Manhattan, and a life member of the Board of Trustees of Columbia University, has willed a tithe (one-tenth) of his estate, after death, to Columbia and last week urged, almost demanded that other alumni do the same. Raze. "The women's colleges of this university should be leveled to the ground." So voted the Oxford Union, debating society, last week, 223 to 198. While Phi Beta Kappa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Education Notes, Nov. 29, 1926 | 11/29/1926 | See Source »

Majestic events, when futile, are brief. The Judge English episode, which was to have been the tenth impeachment* in the history of the U. S., lasted only six minutes± and was the shortest session ever to go on the Senate records...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Futile, Brief | 11/22/1926 | See Source »

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