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Cotton Textiles. "We're gonna do this job in a goldfish bowl. We'll listen to everybody before we get through," promised General Johnson, referring to public hearings on all codes before their submission to the President for final approval. First "goldfish" to go on exhibit in the Washington bowl was the cotton textile industry. Week before a cotton textile code had been turned in to General Johnson. He thought the industry had done "a very beautiful job" even though its minimum wage fell $4.40 per week short of General Johnson's own standard and its maximum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDUSTRY: In a Goldfish Bowl | 7/3/1933 | See Source »

...called "the best known North American in Central and South America." though Princeton's Dr. Edwin Walter Kemmerer, currency adviser to 13 nations, might well dispute this title. Nicaraguans remember how, to prevent repeating, Dr. Dodds caused the finger of every voting Nicaraguan to be dipped in a bowl of mercurochrome at the polls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Kudos Jun. 12, 1933 | 6/12/1933 | See Source »

...There it has remained despite the fact that in Shields, Lott, Allison, Van Ryn, and Vines, America has the greatest collection of tennis players alive and most probably the greatest individual player. Yet France continues to pour water on her already soggy courts and Champagne into the historic bowl...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WHY NOT WIN? | 5/26/1933 | See Source »

...cartoon series. Two of his inventions are now in production: a coathanger with attached compartment to hold mothballs or perfume; a truck tailgate which lowers to receive freight, elevates it to the truck's level. Another Gross invention, not in production, is a combination ashtray & pipe-bowl cleaner which operates like the orange-juice extractors used by soda fountains. Mr. Gross's father was an inventor. His son. 6, and daughter, 11, invent things like bedside bookracks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Can It Be Done? | 4/17/1933 | See Source »

...Singing Lady. For younger children. The theme song ends: "Good Rice Krispies in a bowl, we'll all be happy as Old King Cole...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Good | 3/13/1933 | See Source »

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