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Last week the U. S. Department of Commerce answered this question by publishing a list of landing fields in the U. S. California leads the list of states with 100 fields. Texas follows with 84; then Illinois with 64. New York State is a bit behind the times with only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Landing Fields | 7/4/1927 | See Source »

...claim your newsmagazine to be nonpartisan. Why then labor to insult President Coolidge (June 20, pp. 6-7)? A bit of filth flung in 1924, and you have cherished it all this time t Is this news ? And is it not proper to infer therefrom that your claim to be non-partisan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jun. 27, 1927 | 6/27/1927 | See Source »

...demanded by the Treasury. Theoretically this sum, amounting to several hundred pounds, is due as payment for inserting in the Official Gazette a paragraph to the effect that, last fall, Baron Byng was elevated to the style of Viscount. Actually, of course, the "fee" is a time-honored bit of British graft. How did Lord Byng explain his nonpayment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Peerage Patent | 6/27/1927 | See Source »

...Each bit is gently clear, with naught...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Union of Three Muses Features Dedication of Fogg Art Museum | 6/21/1927 | See Source »

...interesting to you to know that such notes as you have favored me with, which are not at all uncommon in TIME, tend to make the magazine a bit tiresome and have lost it more than one of its earlier subscribers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jun. 20, 1927 | 6/20/1927 | See Source »

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