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World consumption of cotton for the twelve months ending in July was 30,700,000 bales, up 4,500,000 from the previous twelvemonth. A similar increase in world consumption this year would gobble most of the bumper crop. War is the chief threat, as was shown last week when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Harvest Moon | 9/27/1937 | See Source »

"The time has arrived.'' the President said, "for us to take further action to extend the frontiers of social progress. . . . One-third of our population," he echoed his old refrain, ". . . is ill-nourished, ill-clad, and ill-housed. The overwhelming majority of this nation has little patience with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Time Has Arrived . . . | 5/31/1937 | See Source »

Last week a tidal wave of propaganda against venereal disease, having gathered force for 13 months, flooded the entire nation. In San Francisco and Manhattan, in New Orleans and Duluth, and in 200 communities lying between, groups of earnest men and women who support the American Social Hygiene Association listened...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Great Pox (Cont'd) | 2/15/1937 | See Source »

Warden King, a onetime insurance salesman who works part time for the Biological Survey at $3.50 per day, proceeded to expound the law. Caught flagrante delicto, flustered Mr. Justice Van Devanter cried: "Indeed, I'm sorry. I assure you that I'm heartily in favor of anything that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Ignorant Justice | 1/4/1937 | See Source »

After three years Mr. Kent was able to buy a one-cylinder automobile, "not being married and not having to conserve cash," he explains. From the ignition trouble in that car dates the rise of Kent. Develop ing an ignition system of his own, which earned him a Franklin Institute...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Kent Quits | 6/15/1936 | See Source »

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