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...Near "Mile 133" on the Algoma Central Canadian Railway, last week, virile Baggageman Robert Burns dealt in pioneer fashion with a she-wolf. Seizing the beast between neck and shoulders he strangled her into a coma, carried her home securely tied with baggage car twine to Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Privy Seal Jim | 9/2/1929 | See Source »

...been motoring its passengers by bus between Manhattan and Jersey City (its own terminus). The B. & O. bus terminal in Manhattan is opposite Grand Central Terminal. *Besides harvesting machinery, International Harvester also makes motor trucks, motor coaches, gasoline and oil engines, wagons, farm implements and binder twine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Locomotives | 4/15/1929 | See Source »

...Earnings for 1927 were $14,580,902 as against $13,-311,412 for 1926; 3) Of sales progress the statement said with a lofty wobble, "Business conditions in America were somewhat varied, but the foreign business showed steady growth;" 4) "Surgeons' knives, chisels, office-knives and twine-cutters have been added to our line during 1927;" 5) "We regret to record the death during the year of one of our oldest directors, Mr. William A. Gaston. Mr. John Gaston, his son, has been elected a director to succeed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: One Dollar | 2/27/1928 | See Source »

Gillette Safety Razor Co. (Also chiropodists' & doctors' knives, chisels, twine cutters)-$14,580,000. Previous year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: More Earnings | 2/27/1928 | See Source »

...manufacturers have found that Russia is in a buying mood for mining and oil equipment, agricultural machinery, binder twine, live stock, chemicals, metals, rubber, cotton, adding machines and typewriters. The Amtorg Trading Corp.* of Manhattan let it be known that business with the Soviet Union has been booming, that shipments reached a total of $31,199,834 in 1927, as compared with $8,681,412 in 1926. The All-Russian Textile Syndicate Inc. of Manhattan reported that its exports amounted to $42,000,000 in 1927, against $33,000,000 in 1926. These two companies handle the bulk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Russian Trade | 1/30/1928 | See Source »

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