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...Orleans Luck Powder . . . Money-bringing Luck Bags, Holy Oil, and Dragon's Blood . . . Mystic Brahma lodestones . . . The Great 7 to 1 Dream Book...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RACES: No More Magic | 7/13/1931 | See Source »

Clara Bow changed her dyed hair from its celebrated red to pale yellow to avoid recognition, dressed herself in jodhpurs, a silk polo shirt, a whip equipped with powder case. At Friend Bell's ranch she said: "I wanted my contract broken if Paramount saw fit so that I might get back on my feet again. . . . It's like leaving home to leave the studio after all these years, but I know it is the best thing for me to do." She declared that after resting, she would become a free lance again, mentioned screen offers from Metro...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Bow Out | 6/22/1931 | See Source »

...total assets come to $127,393,000 against Penick & Ford's $14,097,000. Some 9,000 people own its common stock. Corn Product's best known brands include Argo starch, Mazola oil, Karo syrup, Linit starch, Cerelose sugar, Kremel pudding powder. Since Father Bedford was believed to be one of its largest shareholders, Son Bedford may find himself in the strange position of having a more valuable investment in Corn Products than in his own company...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Father & Son | 6/1/1931 | See Source »

...physics: the sine wave systems of telegraphy, multiplex telegraphy and telephony, tree telegraphy and telephony, broadcasting over power and telephone lines by radio frequency currents (wired radio). General Squier's exhibit at Chicago was an unexpected non sequitur to his previous work. It was a woman's powder compact, rigged with a strap for wrist wear. A tiny handle pulled out a small drawer wherein reposed powder, puff and mirror...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Inventors & Backers | 4/27/1931 | See Source »

...impossible," ruled the French Medical Academy at last, "to make sufficiently extensive experiments to determine whether such chemicals as are contained in baking powder are harmful." In view of this impossibility, the Academy felt bound to refuse to take any experimental action whatsoever, last week, about baking powder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Bread & Powder | 3/30/1931 | See Source »

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