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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Every day on the editorial page of the Allentown, Pa., Call (circulation 40,868, largest in the Lehigh Valley) appears a column set in what looks, at first glance, like an incredible amount of pied type. Closer inspection reveals a few recognizable proper names and some German-sounding words, but all set in English characters. The column carries the head Pumpernickle Bill, with a small drawing of a hayseedy fellow with stringy beard, corncob pipe, pencil behind ear. But no hayseed or pie-eyed compositor is Columnist Pumpernickle Bill. He is serious-minded William Stahley Troxell, 44, an ex-school...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Pumpernickle Bill | 8/9/1937 | See Source »

Probably more wells are treated per day in the Mid-Continent field than are treated each year in the old Eastern area, described in your article, due to the difference in producing formation and the amount of oil to be still recovered. At this moment, some Dowell treating station, from Canada to Mexico and California to Michigan, is making Dowell's ID,688th treatment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 2, 1937 | 8/2/1937 | See Source »

...clue or information which would "definitely clear up" the mid-Pacific disappearance of Amelia Earhart and her navigator Captain Fred J. Noonan (TIME. July 12 et seq.), her husband George Palmer Putnam posted a reward with the Pan-Pacific Press Bureau. Amount...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Aug. 2, 1937 | 8/2/1937 | See Source »

...Indian fighter stormed because he was not allowed to enlist in the War of 1812. Finally he set off alone to join the army at Detroit, turned back only when news of the Americans' easy surrender there convinced him that the army did not amount to much any more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Books, Jul. 26, 1937 | 7/26/1937 | See Source »

Republican Leader Snell declared that $350,000 "is a fairly liberal amount to celebrate something [the Constitution] that is diminishing at the present time." More serious criticism fell upon Sol's Story of the Constitution for which he wanted the money to distribute. Republican Clare Hoffman of Allegan, Mich, demanded: "Does the 10? which is paid for these books cover the cost?" "Yes & no," said Mr. Bloom. "Well, yes or no?" "I cannot answer in that way. The publication of the 10? book itself costs us about 11?." How many offices did his staff occupy in the old House...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Bloom's Shave | 7/19/1937 | See Source »

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