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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...scarce for food to permit using this one. Another formula, in coal and lime, was followed to produce 2,350 tons of synthetic rubber. But the product cost five dollars a pound; automobile tires made of it wore out after 1,500 miles; for inner tubes it was useless...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Chemists | 9/20/1926 | See Source »

...Sport Useless...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Aug. 16, 1926 | 8/16/1926 | See Source »

...deeply. . . . Late at night, when the last of his advisers had left him, Mr. Roosevelt was in a state of excitement such as I had never seen before. When left alone he continued to pace up and down the room like a caged lion. I knew it would be useless to talk to him. So I just went over to his side and walked up and down with him. Gradually he slackened his pace a little, and then I touched his arm. " 'Don't you think you might rest now, Mr. Roosevelt?' I suggested. "He paused...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Put out the Light | 8/16/1926 | See Source »

HILTONSHURLEY MOGGS The Moggs Foundation For the purveying of useless things to worthy people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fiction: Aug. 16, 1926 | 8/16/1926 | See Source »

...Louis Sherry, 71; after a long illness, in Manhattan. When he conducted his restaurant at Fifth Ave. and 44th St., many gentlemen had a way of saying to him, "I am dining 60 tomorrow," or "My daughter's dance will be on the 19th." Directions would have been a useless insult. He knew every debutante, dowager, rake, banker, and gourmet who lived in Manhattan between 1885 and 1915. He chose the wines that J. P. Morgan offered his guests. James Hazen Hyde, one winter night, gave in his restaurant a costume ball which is said .to have been the most...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jun. 21, 1926 | 6/21/1926 | See Source »

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