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Dates: during 1920-1929
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From New Orleans, heading for St. Louis 1,200 miles upstream, "out to beat the record of the Robert E. Lee," sleek express cruiser Martha Jane and a smaller mahogany runabout called Bogie started up the tortuous Mississippi. The Robert E. Lee's record, made in 1870 when she...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRANSPORTATION: Sternwheelers | 7/29/1929 | See Source »

Twenty years ago this week Louis Bleriot, Frenchman, flew the first airplane across the English Channel, from Calais to Dover.-* Just now Louis Bleriot is in Paris receiving plaudits for the anniversary. From Paris he will go to London for more plaudits and a pleasant sight-a model of his...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: London Show | 7/29/1929 | See Source »

* In wine-growing France, Professor Maurice Loeper of the Sorbonne last week completed a study purporting to prove that wine assists digestion, contains vitamins, radioactive properties. The finished Loeper document is an expansion of the famed Louis Pasteur proverb: "Wine is the most wholesome and the most hygienic of beverages...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: A. M. A. Convention | 7/22/1929 | See Source »

In 1901 he went to Burroughs Adding Machine Co., then located in St. Louis, as General Manager. He found that the man whom he succeeded as General Manager had left in a great rage. Soon Mr. Macauley, planning an expansion program, needed to acquire a certain alley. His predecessor had...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: U.S. Motors Abroad | 7/22/1929 | See Source »

In 1917 Bishop of Utah and a specially appointed Commission of the House of Bishops met in a house in Vandeventer Place, St. Louis. Outside moaned the wind, snow flurried in the streets. The Commission sat alone. Bishop Jones was in an-other room but the Commission knew they might...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Again, Paul Jones | 7/22/1929 | See Source »

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