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...rapidly. Warm weather spread north and rain prevailed as far as Plymouth. Jackson and the nearby Eastern Slope region of the White Mountains was covered by a five inch blanket of wet snow while Franconia and Pinkham Notches received a light fall of between two and three inches of powder snow...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ski Column | 1/22/1937 | See Source »

...Western Massachusetts open slope skiing is reported at Greenfield. The trails on Greylock are insufficiently covered to allow any running but some of the open slopes on the north side of the mountain have two inches of powder snow over a thin frozen base...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ski Column | 1/22/1937 | See Source »

...failed to mention that the S. P. C. P. G.* is a trifle more than a "joke," that it does everything in its power to help "George," that its last known public appearance was in the U. S. Patent Office in July 1930. Electromaster, Inc., manufacturing cleaning and scouring powder, intended to market the product under the trade-mark of "Let George Do It" and for that purpose filed a trade-mark application. Opposition #10833 was filed by the Society. The Notice of Opposition recites that the society is "unincorporated under the laws of all States and having an office...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 11, 1937 | 1/11/1937 | See Source »

...Diego. Calif, doorstep a vigilant bodyguard spied a beer bottle filled with black powder, instantly snatched out the bomb's fuse in time to save the house of General Plutarco Elias Calles, exiled onetime Mexican President, who was playing cards inside...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jan. 11, 1937 | 1/11/1937 | See Source »

...little fellow, 'to the inefficient, the Supreme Court's decision looked like the happy end of price competition. To the public it meant only one thing: higher prices. In Illinois last week face powder formerly selling as low as 63? could not be legally retailed below $1.10. Even Major Benjamin H. Namm, head of Brooklyn's big Namm department store and a loud advocate of anti-loss-leader legislation, cried in alarm: "Price-fixing as a cure for predatory price-cutting is far worse than the disease itself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Pep Boys v. Fair Trade | 12/21/1936 | See Source »

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