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Dates: during 1920-1929
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"It is hard for anyone who has not been blind to realize what a thrill it is not to have to see everything. It is really marvelous not to look at a lot of things and people that you don't want to see."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Blind & Gay | 4/8/1929 | See Source »

"Half of people's appetite is a result of looking at food. Now that I can't see what I am eating I feel that I could very easily dispense with it."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Blind & Gay | 4/8/1929 | See Source »

I.T.&T. Last week, when Paris correspondents feverishly cabled their great scoop, every well-informed businessman knew about the giant I.T.&T. whose stock had gone up more than 100 points in one year. A year ago, before the Brothers Behn acquired the Mackay telegraph and cable systems (TIME, April...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Breathless Behns | 4/8/1929 | See Source »

Many a U. S. citizen, little acquainted with the individuals who head U. S. corporations, has at least long known that venerable HALEY FISKE was president of Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. Last month, however, Mr. Fiske died (TIME, March 11). Now the U. S. citizen, asked to name Metropolitan'...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Investor Ecker | 4/8/1929 | See Source »

Sir Henri Wilhelm August Deterding, K. B. E., head of Royal Dutch Petroleum Co. and Shell Transport & Trading Co., Ltd., sat at a large mahogany table and ate an Edam cheese sandwich. Around the same table some 20 potent oilmen sat, discussed petroleum and how not to produce too much...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Smooth Oil | 4/8/1929 | See Source »

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