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...three-element audion tube in 1907. Far from cordial was Philco Radio & Television Corp., which has small esteem for metal tubes and no stomach whatever for a possible public swing in that direction. Philco bought a full page in the New York Times ($4,500) to launch a counterblast. Recalling an ill-starred experiment with metal tubes in Britain, Philco warned that a "pell mell rush" into metal might also have disastrous consequences here. Points...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Tube Tumult | 4/22/1935 | See Source »

Despite blast and counterblast between President Roosevelt and Soviet Foreign Minister Litvinoff, each of whom remains convinced that the other is a liar,† Russia's Amtorg Trading Corp. continues to buy in the U. S. much as if there had been no quarrel-making diplomatic recognition of Moscow by Washington (TIME, Nov. 27, 1933). Last week bustling Amtorg Board Chairman Ivan Boyeff signed in Pittsburgh a contract with Pittsburgh's United Engineering & Foundry Co. to buy more than $3,500,000 worth of electric-powered, roller-bearing equipment for the $700,000,000 Zaporozhstal (steel) Works, most...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Cost | 3/11/1935 | See Source »

...this counterblast was not moral victory enough for Il Duce. Simultaneously the council of directors decided to wipe out the effects of the Pope's message by 1) establishing a separate Party bureau for Balilla propaganda, granting it $50,000 from the Party coffers forthwith; 2) mobilizing the entire party (873,000 adults and 642,000 youths) on the Piave battlefields as a demonstration that Fascism is a military force not to be underestimated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY-PAPAL STATE: Lies! Insult! | 7/27/1931 | See Source »

Conservative Counterblast. The die-hard British Conservatives, led by famed Winston Churchill, privately consider all schemes for granting any kind of dominion status to India treasonable. In the U. S. last week Mr. Churchill's hotheaded, loose-lipped, lecture-touring son publicly called Scot MacDonald "a traitor to his country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Isaacs Week | 1/19/1931 | See Source »

Eagerly they went, wondering whether the House of Morgan was about to issue a counterblast against Governor Roosevelt or had decided to backtrack from the blast of adverse publicity. Neither appeared to be the case. They were received in a most easy manner by Morgan Partners Thomas W. Lamont and Harold Stanley. Mr. Lament, always popular with newsmen, issued the statement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PUBLIC UTILITIES: Voice of Morgan | 9/30/1929 | See Source »

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