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Died. William Reed, 19, son of Professor Elmer Bliss Reed of Yale; off the Maine coast in Frenchman's Bay; of drowning. Three weeks ago he was lost with his sloop in a squall. The body was found by a lobster fisherman off Egg Rock Light after 150 lobster boats, two yachts, two seaplanes had searched many days...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Oct. 7, 1929 | 10/7/1929 | See Source »

...however earnest and diligent, 240,000 years to lay as many eggs as a female oyster will toss into the water on a single midsummer day. No less splendidly fecund is the male who will presently fertilize this brood. A few weeks elapse, and upon some clean, hard rock begins the life-struggle of 60,000,000 infant oysters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Bluepoints, Inc. | 9/30/1929 | See Source »

...Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WOMEN: Diner Smoking | 9/9/1929 | See Source »

...linear distance of the Spokane-New York-Spokane shuttle is 7,200 miles. The air distance traveled by the Sun God was approximately 10,000 miles. The added distance resulted from the pilots having to detour some bad weather spots. "At Rock Springs in the heart of the Rocky Mountains we found it necessary to fly between ten and twelve thousand feet. . . . Bad air at North Platte made refueling almost impossible. . . . Over the Allegheny Mountains we got the customary storms. We would start to fly west and get a storm signal. We would then start back for New York...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Flights & Flyers: Sep. 2, 1929 | 9/2/1929 | See Source »

That is the way the strip looked upon its arrival in the office of the Kansas City Times. But readers saw no snake when the strip was published in the Times. In place of the snake appeared a toad, hurriedly scratched in. In place of the stick was a rock. In place of the blurbs were other blurbs: "Don't let that toad get away. One of you pick up a rock or something and kill it! . . . EEEEEEK! She picked up the TOAD to hit the ROCK with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: No Snakes Allowed | 8/26/1929 | See Source »

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