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...confused, bitter session, "Goober" Cox and his eight stalwarts held off action, countered with the proposition that Mrs. Norton's committee confer the next day with both warring factions of organized labor and representatives of U. S. business in an effort to reach an all-around compromise. Trap-mouthed "Goober" Cox knew as well as Mrs. Norton that nothing but hot words would emanate from such a session. So the nine Congressmen smiled, and Mrs. Norton trudged wearily away to arrange the "conference...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: 25 Lousy Cents! | 8/7/1939 | See Source »

...Farmer Rice and his crude trap-nest goes credit for starting the scientific breeding of hens that has made modern egg production possible. The poultry business is today close to a billion-dollar-a-year industry (fourth after cattle, hogs and dairying in U.S. agriculture's gross income). To Professor Rice, founder (1903) and retired (1934) head of Cornell's first U. S. poultry school, goes credit, too, for fathering poultry breeding as an agricultural science...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Cacklefest | 8/7/1939 | See Source »

This is just 1,000 times what the first Waring orchestra drew down for its first engagement, in Tyrone, Pa., 21 years ago. Fred, 18, was then in Penn State, studying architecture and engineering. His younger brother Tom and the boy next door, a dark, antic trap-drummer named Poley McClintock, had a two-piece piano & drums outfit that used to pick up occasional pin money playing for Victory dances, etc. They invited Fred, a violinist who preferred the banjo to join in. Another banjoist, Fred Buck, joined too. Four-strong, they barnstormed Pennsylvania's busy mining district, picked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Fred Waring, Inc. | 6/26/1939 | See Source »

...Thetis' crew could do so little to save themselves, there were two major explanations: 1) the tilted escape chamber proved a death trap; 2) the Thetis' crew did not start to save itself until its air was fouled and bilge water had begun to wet the batteries, releasing chlorine gas. Says the escape manual of the U. S. Navy, father of the submarine: "It is emphasized that if attempted individual escape is delayed until the first stages of asphyxia have developed, it will probably be too late successfully to accomplish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: WRECK | 6/12/1939 | See Source »

Rumpel-Stilts-Kin (Decca). The Merry Macks-three boys, one pretty girl and a left-handed trap drummer - record the newest of the swift, adroit, hot vocalizations that they have been airing over the big networks for a year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Strange Record | 6/12/1939 | See Source »

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