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...Havana, some time ago, one A. G. Tarn saw Blixtra, a three-year-old racehorse that looked as if it could run. He bought it, took it back to the U. S. Whereupon Blixtra lost 18 races in succession...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Blixtra | 6/1/1931 | See Source »

...Federal Trade Commission's three-year-old investigation of the electric light, gas, & power industry is now in its second, most politically explosive phase. The first phase was investigating the industry's propaganda in schools, colleges and the Press (TIME, July 16, 1928 et seq.). Then the investigators tackled the more difficult job of ascertaining the financial set-up of the industry, the relationship between holding and operating companies, stock ownership, management fees, interlocking directorates. After a year's secret work, the investigators are now ready to state their findings. Since this phase of the inquiry will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UTILITIES: Power Probe: Phase II | 5/25/1931 | See Source »

...Mate, three-year-old chestnut, owned by A. C. Bostwick: the Preakness at Pimlico, beating Mrs. Payne Whitney's Twenty Grand by a length and a half, with Ladder, an outsider, third, and Equipoise, second choice and winter book favorite for the Kentucky Derby, fourth. Twenty Grand and Equipoise took each other out of the race at the clubhouse turn when both tried to go through the same hole along the rail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Who Won, May 18, 1931 | 5/18/1931 | See Source »

...disgrace to European statecraft was the final adjournment in Geneva last week of the three-year-old League of Nations conference to promote a general European tariff truce (TIME, Sept...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE LEAGUE: Tardy Nations | 3/30/1931 | See Source »

...have a three-year-old daughter who insists on taking it to bed with her every afternoon for her nap, in place of a doll...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 9, 1931 | 3/9/1931 | See Source »

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