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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Fazekas was much in demand as a "wise woman'' or midwife because of the frequency with which unwanted babies were born dead under her ministrations. Unfortunately mothers often died as well. One day Mrs. Fazekas saw a fly sip from a saucer in which was a sheet of arsenical flypaper, drop dead. She saw a chicken eat the fly and drop dead in turn. Mrs. Fazekas pondered these interesting phenomena, then ordered great quantities of flypaper from neighboring villages...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HUNGARY: Midwife Fazekas | 12/9/1929 | See Source »

...Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co., said its president James A. Campbell, increased its deposits in local banks so they would have funds to lend for constructive business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Prosperity Pledgers | 12/2/1929 | See Source »

Youngstown Sheet & Tube...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Sucker List | 11/18/1929 | See Source »

Inland Steel. Second largest in Chicago district. Plans to merge with Youngstown Sheet & Tube suddenly dropped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Eaton's Girdler | 11/4/1929 | See Source »

Youngstown Sheet & Tube. Third largest producer, making mostly pipes, sheets and tubes for the oil and automobile industry. Three-fourths of the plant and most of the directors located in Youngstown, Ohio. Twenty per cent stock dividend paid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Eaton's Girdler | 11/4/1929 | See Source »

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