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Only means yet discovered of reaching high altitudes is offered by the rocket, with which scientific men have hesitated to experiment. They feel sure they will lose professional caste, be branded as cranks who are attempting to go to the moon. To curb such gossip rocketeers hive been more emphatic than most in insisting on the impossibility of a moon journey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Rocketeering | 7/21/1930 | See Source »

Terminal Cab, incorporated January 1930, buys from General Motors Truck Corp. Buyer and seller alike are subsidiaries of Yellow Coach & Truck Mfg. Corp., which is in turn controlled by General Motors. Taxi gossip has it that these 955 cabs, turquoise blue with a red stripe, will shortly displace the complaining Yellows as the largest fleet in the city. Their sudden prosperity is based upon the Pennsylvania and Grand Central terminal concessions, recently wrested from Yellow Taxi Corp., and calling for 800 to 900 cabs daily...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Cry Babies | 6/23/1930 | See Source »

Reviewers, flipping through advance galley proofs, found much inevitable court gossip, but dug out one sprightly passage of present and international interest. "It diverts me, after the flight of years," writes cheerful Leopold of Habsburg, "to contrast the career of Sir Thomas Lipton with mine. While he shot up the social ladder I shot down. He, the one time grocer, was soon to mix in royal circles on flattering, if not on almost equal, terms, whereas I, the one time royal personage, ultimately became a grocer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUSTRIA: Down Habsburg, Up Lipton | 5/26/1930 | See Source »

...Weather Fade Out. As finally divulged last week, the true story of the leak began with Correspondent Kirk idling near the door from which the Cabinet emerged after making their historic decision. Entering casually into hot weather gossip with statesmen he knew, Mr. Kirk remarked to no one in particular, "I suppose the Cabinet agreed to arrest Gandhi...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: State Secret Betrayed | 5/19/1930 | See Source »

...doubt as to what is happening in my own home, I need only turn to the gossip in The Daily Wonder to find all the information I need. It may be the latest remark or action of my daughter? though probably unknown to myself?or the fact that we have changed the decoration of our London house some ten or twelve times since we first occupied it three years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Names Make News | 5/19/1930 | See Source »

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