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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...combination of special low rates for this type of service with speedy delivery both at the college and at the student's home has made this service a very popular one with college men and women...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: RAILWAY EXPRESS OFFERS LAUNDRY SERVICE | 9/23/1938 | See Source »

Arrival of color photography as a standard item of Hollywood technique will be signalized only when critics give it the final seal of their approval by not mentioning it at all. Valley of the Giants is photographically far enough ahead of its time to deserve this type of accolade. Rich forest greens, the deep tones of turn-of-the-century interiors, the cheerful glow of full bottles on a well-stocked bar help immeasurably to give the picture character and substance. Its life blood, however, is a story which, although it is a throwback to silent cinema classics, has derived...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Sep. 19, 1938 | 9/19/1938 | See Source »

...outdated equipment, the show also included a 3-ton, 6-in. cannon, mounted on a high-wheeled carriage and an old Winchester rifle. The cannon, worthy of a museum, was manufactured at Obujov. Russia in 1864. The Winchester, with the date 1860 still visible on its barrel, was the type used by U. S. frontiersmen in the Indian fighting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Visual Evidence | 9/12/1938 | See Source »

...firm today, it distrusts the standard form of bond issue, which can cause such a crisis as that now afflicting the B. & O. railroad by maturing during depressed times (see p, 62). So last week Sunray Oil filed with SEC registration for what it believed to be a new type of security- "a corporate contractual obligation of indebtedness without fixed maturity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Contractual Obligation | 9/12/1938 | See Source »

Peat is compressed, decayed vegetation found in bogs. Processed peat is used as fuel, fertilizer, insulator, wallboard material, wrapping paper, cloth base. Exide Batteries of Canada, Ltd. uses a type of peat for a secret paint which binds rubber to metal. Domestic Scotch whiskey distillers get their vaunted "Highland peat" flavor by charring raw peat inside their kegs. But though the U.S. has 11,200 square miles of peat bogs (only Russia, Canada...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RAW MATERIALS: Bog Rot | 9/12/1938 | See Source »

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