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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...worked for U. S. Radium Corp., was also suffering from the same poison, acquired in utero. The child's affliction, if proved, promised to raise fine medico-legal points. Is he the victim of industrial hazard? Can a concern be held liable for the ills of its employees' descendants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Radium Poisoning Inherited? | 11/18/1929 | See Source »

Like Mark Twain and John Singer Sargent, even a sea-elephant might think it funny to see his own obituary notices. But great-tusked, bulging-eyed, three-and-a-half ton Goliath, "the only sea-elephant in captivity," employe of Circusman John Ringling, never looks happy, and last fortnight he...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Sea-Elephant | 10/28/1929 | See Source »

It was a popular preference for acrobatics instead of music that started Mr. Ringling, youngest of seven Ringling Bros.* on his career as circus-man. Back in the late '70s, the brothers organized a concert troupe, discovered that the addition first of a contortionist, later of a trapeze act, materially...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Circus Trust | 9/23/1929 | See Source »

Querist Uhrbrock's conclusions: Employers cannot estimate the intelligence of job-seekers from photographs. Many a stupid employe there must be, whose face is his fortune.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Fortunes in Faces | 9/9/1929 | See Source »

In 1858 the ideas of employe profit-sharing and of inviting consumers to become stockholders were probably not familiar to Surgeon Squibb. There was nothing of that sort in the Navy, very little of it in business. Now that both these policies have become commonplaces, the successors of Surgeon Squibb...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Squibb Squib | 8/26/1929 | See Source »

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