Word: timings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Pacific Coast Steel Co. first read upon their checks "These pay checks are made non-negotiable so that employes cannot cash them in saloons" they knew it was the work of William (Pigiron) Piggott, president of the company, bitter and active campaigner against liquor.* Mr. Piggott by the time of his death (TIME, July 29) had built up his Pacific Coast Steel Co. and its subsidiary, Southern California Iron & Steel Co., to an annual capacity of 380,000 tons-40,000 more than Columbia Steel, only complete steel unit west of the Rockies, managed then by San Francisco...
Last month United States Steel Corp. absorbed Columbia (TIME, Nov. 11). Last week Bethlehem Steel's Eugene Gifford Grace, then in San Francisco, announced his company would acquire Pacific Coast Steel and its subsidiary...
...your own house. "2. Be the only customer and you will have no license to pay. Give your wife $2 to buy a gallon of whiskey and remember that there are 69 drinks to the gallon. "3. Buy your drinks from no one but your wife. By the time the first gallon is gone she will have $8 to put in the bank and $2 to start business again. "Should you live 10 years and continue to buy booze from her and then die with snakes in your boots, she will have money enough to bury you decently, educate your...
Headquarters. William Farnum, whose pompadour, jaw and chest expansion were once what all the young ladies of the time covertly admired, is currently to be seen on Broadway, mature, heavy, but still indubitably heroic. As a police inspector he is forced to inquire into the double murder of his own wife and her paramour. For a while suspicion falls on Mr. Farnum's daughter (by an earlier marriage), but this pretty thing is no more a murderess than she seems. When the case has been solved, you are left with two striking thoughts: 1) A convenient and unusual thing...
...South American jungle becoming a social success in a modern U. S. city. These possibilities were neglected; Untamed becomes a routine, highly improbable love story built around the man Miss Crawford meets on the boat coming north. Except for a song in The Hollywood Revue, it is the first time her voice has been photographed. She sings with a deep, throaty twang; even her mutterings as Bingo, the jungle girl, do not spoil the effect of her natural vivacity and physical outlines. Silliest shot: fistfight between Bingo's sweetheart and another suitor in a ballroom during a fashionable party...