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Far off in the prairies, over ragged mountains, through black tunnels, the silver gray wires hum from pole to pole, as they streak their messages across the country. Under great lakes of cold water, across rivers, and rolling on the bottom of black oceans, the dirty, slimy cables tremble with...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 11/8/1932 | See Source »

Thunder clouds rolling down the valley of the Loire last week made excited Frenchmen hurry to launch from the river's mouth at St. Nazaire the largest ship in the world.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Ship of Empire | 11/7/1932 | See Source »

Ignorant bookmakers offered to bet 40 to 1 that Michigan, Western Conference leader, would beat Princeton at Ann Arbor. Princeton recovered a fumble on Michigan's 16-yd. line and turned it into a touchdown in the second quarter; Michigan's only score in the half was a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Football, Nov. 7, 1932 | 11/7/1932 | See Source »

One day a little more than a year ago there issued from the Richmond, Va. factory of Larus & Brother Co. (William T. Reed, president) a small shipment of cigarets modestly named White Rolls. Their cheap package was without Cellophane, they were unheralded by advertising-but their price was 10? per...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: IOC V. I5C | 10/31/1932 | See Source »

In March President George Cooper of Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corp. of Louisville, Ky., reduced the price of a 15? cigaret called Wings to 10?. Production of Wings doubled in a month. Although White Rolls and Paul Jones had fallen off a little. Wings' sales boosted the ten-centers'...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: IOC V. I5C | 10/31/1932 | See Source »

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