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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When I read about your new advertisement policy in a recent issue, I was cheered to learn that TIME'S management, more courageous than most publishers, had decided to limit the amount of advertising matter. As I recall it, you said you would in the future restrict the newsmagazine to 80 pages. You can imagine what I thought of your courage when I opened the Oct. 7 issue and found the last page numbered 84. Have you . . . "weaseled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 21, 1929 | 10/21/1929 | See Source »

...features of the CRIMSON is the bi-monthly edition of the Bookshelf, a magazine devoted to reviews of the latest in the literary world. The critics, both undergraduates and professors, make no attempt to survey the complete field of modern writing but restrict themselves to those books which a conservative judgement leads to believe them to be of more than ephemeral value...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BOOKENDS | 9/20/1929 | See Source »

...Inlets. Little progress has been made in efforts towards a national agreement to restrict production, an agreement which could end overnight any danger of oil drugging the market. Yet great hopes are held for the results of a California law which goes into effect in September. The law forbids oil production without proper efforts to conserve the natural gas which flows out with the oil. Enforcement of the law may reduce California's overproduction by some 250,000 barrels daily. California is at present yielding more oil than any other State. The result may be a reduction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: The Oily Deep | 9/2/1929 | See Source »

...years the maximum height for buildings in Boston was 125 feet above the street. Three years ago this was changed to 155 feet, and today we have a most unique law which does not restrict the height of a building provided its cubical contents do not exceed the area of the lot times 155. This represents the height of human ingenuity in determining how to solve traffic and light problems...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jul. 29, 1929 | 7/29/1929 | See Source »

...worst, from an agricultural standpoint, ever presented to the House." His Iowa colleague, Representative Ramseyer, echoed his sentiments, denounced items in the bill as "indefensible." Chairman Haugen of the Agricultural Committee grew more grumpy than usual over the lumber and shingles duty and the failure of the measure to restrict vegetable oils...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE TARIFF: Bill Out | 5/20/1929 | See Source »

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