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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...starry event takes place this week in smoky Pittsburgh-the formal dedication and opening to the public of the $1,100,000 Buhl Planetarium and Institute of Popular Science. This week Pittsburgh becomes the fifth of that select group of U. S. cities -Philadelphia, Chicago, New York, Los Angeles-whose inhabitants can go stargazing indoors.* Boss of the Buhl Planetarium is deep-voiced James Stokley (pronounced "Stokely"), generally considered the most inventive of planetarium showmen, who last spring left a job at the Pels Planetarium in Philadelphia to take charge in Pittsburgh (TIME, April...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Ah-h-h! | 10/30/1939 | See Source »

...workshops, shrines. After an unofficial send-off from Admirer Auslander at the Library of Congress, the Pilgrimage got under way last Sunday. Pilgrim Malone visited the room in the Roger Brooke Taney house at Frederick, Md. which Francis Scott Key used to frequent, broadcast chattily of the old medico whose truculence toward the British got Key in the prison-ship predicament that inspired his deathless ditty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Pilgrim | 10/30/1939 | See Source »

...distributors, National Dairy Products and Borden, whose subsidiaries distribute milk in most big cities, find it to their advantage to preserve home milk delivery. Their milk wagon routes give them a relatively closed market, and there is more competition in store sales. Actually the distributors make more money on cheese, butter, etc., so they have no special interest in pushing the sale of bottled milk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRADE: Let 'Em Drink Grade A | 10/30/1939 | See Source »

...years ago, Young, who could be taken for a missionary (which his brother Paul, who has occasionally cooperated with him, is), was making quite a thing out of the Latin American and domestic market for munitions. He was engaged in "Protection Engineering" as president of Federal Laboratories, Inc., whose sales zoomed during NRA days as vendors of tear gas and machine guns to corporations involved in labor difficulties. Senator Nye's Munitions Committee and Senator La Follette's Civil Liberties Committee both investigated Mr. Young. Choice reports to Young publicized by the Committees: from Missionary Brother Paul...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANUFACTURING: War Babies | 10/30/1939 | See Source »

...That Salesman Mascuch, whose salary was running at about $6,000 to $12,000 a year, had drawn $88,000 for "sales expenses" in that time without accounting for any of it; that the company was carrying him for an additional $21,000, other individuals for other loans; that it had guaranteed a debt of its subsidiary, Federal Laboratories...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANUFACTURING: War Babies | 10/30/1939 | See Source »

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