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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Paris of a throat infection following influenza. The Amelia was sold to U.S. Oilman Henry Clay Pierce who renamed her the Yacona. In turn he disposed of her to the U.S. for use in the Philippines where she was given her third name, Apo, after the Islands' highest mountain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Yachts | 4/1/1929 | See Source »

...White Mountain Express stopped one day last week at Northampton, Mass., to take aboard a sandy-haired man carrying a small black bag marked C. C. He took a seat in the Pullman drawing room, leaving the door open. School girls raced through the car, peeked in at him, giggled. He shut the door...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Private Business | 4/1/1929 | See Source »

After the Gould trio had landed among the icy mountains, pegged down their plane and set up their tent, a fierce wind rose from the north. Their indicator showed it roaring 85 m. p. h. The wind grew stronger. The plane bobbed up and down against its stay ropes. Stronger the wind. Gould, holding a rope, "was blown straight out like a flag." The men hugged the ice, dug knives into it to keep from blowing away. "The wind bellowed and shrieked at us. Pieces of snow, big lumps, began to hit us. They were pieces of packed snow from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Antarctic Wind | 4/1/1929 | See Source »

When the Rev. Benjamin C. Dahnes of Mountain Home, Pa., married divorced 5?-&-10? Tycoon Sebastian Spering Kresge to Mrs. Clara K. Swaine last December, he violated no civil law. However, in the Methodist Episcopal Church is a law which says that no minister may marry a person who has been the "guilty party'' in a divorce suit. In his last divorce suit Mr. Kresge was judged a "guilty party" and did not contest the judgment. Therefore, the Rev. Benjamin Dahnes did violate a law of his Church...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Divorces | 3/25/1929 | See Source »

Recent Policy. Phelps Dodge owns the Copper Queen mines near Bisbee and other mines at Morenci, both in Arizona; a slightly developed property at Burro Mountain at Tyrone, N. Mex.; the Montezuma Copper Co. of Sonora; smelters at Douglas, Ariz. About a year ago Phelps Dodge joined with other copper companies including Calumet & Arizona Mining Co. (another Bisbee producer) to buy a substantial interest in Nichols Copper Co., which owns a copper refinery on Long Island. Nichols Co. is to build a refinery at El Paso especially to handle their product...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Ansonia | 3/25/1929 | See Source »

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