Word: apr
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...news, cost $75 per ton. Today it costs $62 per ton. The decline in price is cited as the reason the newsprint makers, notably International Paper Co., have been going into the business of selling waterpower to make a side profit, and buying newspapers to ensure their market (TIME, Apr. 22, et seq.). The possibility of a price rise was cited by the American Newspaper Publishers' Association, convened last week at Asheville, N. C., as a potential menace. Said the publishers...
...present expedition's airship, now lost. †The Amundsen-Ellsworth-Nobile dirigible (TIME, Apr...
Packard, who designed the first Packard after a careful study of European cars, retired from the business in 1915. He died three months ago (TIME, Apr. 2), beloved by his neighbors in Warren, Ohio, to whom he left $100,000 for a town library. Last year some 35,000 six-and eight-cylinder Packards were sold and Mr. Macauley said: "We keep only those men who, we believe, are personally interested in the work itself...
...Duffy before the National Republican Club in Manhattan. Father Duffy, no obscure clergyman, was Roman Catholic chaplain of the famed 69th Regiment of New York ("the fighting Irish") during the World War, was advisor to Governor Alfred Emanuel Smith in his historic reply to Lawyer Charles C. Marshall (TIME, Apr. 25). Father Duffy also told the Republicans that any Catholic priest talking politics in a pulpit, even though lauding A. E. Smith, would be "trimmed down" if reported to his bishop or cardinal...
Taurus (bull), Apr. 21 to May 21, governed by Venus. The landed gentry and the contented plowman are typical Taurus folk. They are unimaginative, conservative creatures of habit. They make good friends and good homes. Some of them will become lazy and sensual. They are sturdy of body and should beware of heart and throat diseases. Under this sign were born Chauncey Mitchell Depew, Sir James Matthew Barrie, Sigmund Freud, Christopher Morley, William Guglielmo Marconi, Ulysses Simpson Grant, William Shakespeare...