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...around the haycocks, the mangers, back of the pigpen, under the icehouse, the wagons and the currant bushes, to show them all the nests and how to collect the eggs, carry them carefully, set them down uncracked in the dairy ready for market. After the boys know their job, the man is free to go off and saw wood or milk his cows...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Adequately Demonstrated | 10/25/1926 | See Source »

...across the country, several million dollars' worth of shop equipment. Eyes turned toward the leading U. S. airmail contractors- Henry Ford in Detroit, the Colonial Air Transport Inc. (New England), National Air Transport Inc. (Midwest), Pacific Air Transport Inc.- expecting some joint or combined offer for the transcontinental job and properties...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Adequately Demonstrated | 10/25/1926 | See Source »

...during 1925, met at Quebec last week as the Investment Bankers Association. They gathered as much for mutual acquaintance as for conference on their peculiar problems. Investment banking has grown to be of vast complexity, and depends much upon personal relations. Issuing houses buy bonds wholesale, which they job to their retail correspondents. These in turn sell such securities directly to investors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Investment Bankers | 10/25/1926 | See Source »

...Must Be Love (Colleen Moore). Fernie Schmidt was born in, and for twenty years inhabited, a delicatessen store. But a job at a perfume counter was her ideal. This she gratifies, but when her ambitious lover buys the very store in which Pappa Schmidt made $80,000, as the financial basis for their future marriage, limburger suddenly takes on the fragrance of attar of roses, pickles turn to rosettes, and Fernie, delighted, helps out in the store and back of it. Hoch die Delikatessen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Pictures: Oct. 18, 1926 | 10/18/1926 | See Source »

...elsewhere he continues: "Our job is to change all that. Somehow or other, in the course of centuries we've got to slough off the philosophy which has led us down the wrong trail... War is an inevitable and comparatively insignificant incident resulting from our false hypothesis of conduct:" This is what the "conchy" brother and all the rest of his kind were saying before the fight began, and it is an opinion that the world in general is just beginning to sceptically examine. In a word it is the verdict against nationalism and its attendant evils of patriotism...

Author: By R. H. S. ., | Title: LABELS, by A. Hamilton Gibbs. Little Brown and Company, Boston. 1926. $2.00. | 10/18/1926 | See Source »