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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Victor. During 1925, Victor Talking Machine lost $4,187,879 by scrapping its old type machines and remodeling its factories at Camden, N. J., to make Radiolas (combined talking machines and radio receiving sets) and Orthophonics (talking machines controlled by vacuum tubes). This was to offset competition of radio receiving set manufacturers (TIME, Dec. 20). The rewards of the changes came last year. Profits were $7,983,094, the largest for the company since 1916, wrote President Edward E. Shumaker to stockholders last week...
Sleep. Railroads, notably the Pennsylvania and B. & O, offered last week new-type pullman coaches. Each car contained 14 private rooms, communicating if desired. Each room had a full length bed, folding table and chair, full toilet facilities with hot and cold running water, electric fans, shaded lights, and full length mirror. For travel in these new cars railroads that had them charged 1¼ fare for transportation plus the price of two lower berths for the use of the rooms...
Study of a new type of construction?hollow metal body with curved side extensions replacing distinct wings?has led German engineers to predict ships of 150 tons, 20,000 tons...
...PEACHES" said black type more than an inch high, in a Pittsburgh newssheet. Frances Heenan Browning, blonde, buxom, onetime darling of the tabloids, had signed a contract to expose her nether limbs to the gaze of Pittsburgh's night-clubbers. Pittsburghers, righteously indignant, "canned" "Peaches," forced the cancellation of the contract. Meanwhile, Dr. Henry J. Schireson, Chicago plastic surgeon, surveyed the aforementioned nether limbs with interest; gossip said that "Peaches" agreed to pay him $10,000 to remove her acid burn scars and bring slender shapeliness to her amply-built legs...
...offers to those men in this year's graduating class is an opportunity for a practical test of the system. The results of the general oral examination as compared with those of the written examinations in the subjects of concentration, that is--with the former plan, should indicate which type of inquiry produces the more satisfactory evidence that a man coming up for his degree is equipped in his field. The exact influence of the tutors perforce must remain to be proved as far as this department is concerned...