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Word: 2s (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Painful to U. S. airlines is the dizzy rate at which transport planes grow obsolete. In 1933 United Air Lines paid $2,500,000 for 55 Boeing 247s. Within six months the new Douglas DC2 outloaded, outsped them. When T.W.A. bought a fleet of DC-2s, United spent $1,500,000 more revamping its Boeings. But Douglas engineers were already mocking-up (building a model) the still bigger & better...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: DC-4s to Patterson | 8/7/1939 | See Source »

...which will be amplified) will then proceed, after which His Majesty will address the troops. . . . His Majesty will then ride back to Buckingham Palace at the head of the troops who will march in column of fours. The price of reserved seats will be 15s. and of unreserved seats 2s...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Down Constitution Hill | 7/27/1936 | See Source »

Thus in practice all "insurance" plans have much in common. In England the premium paid to the insurance fund is 2s 6d (60?) per week for adult men; in Wisconsin it is 2% of payrolls. In Ohio 3% was proposed. When a man becomes unemployed there is a "waiting period" before benefits begin: in England six days; in Wisconsin two weeks; under the Ohio plan three weeks. Then the unemployed, having registered at an official employment office, begin to draw benefits: in England 15s 3d ($3.81) per week; in Wisconsin 50% of weekly wages but not less than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOCIAL SERVICES: Breaking Soil | 11/26/1934 | See Source »

Rebuilt since the time when, playing a dogleg par four, Jock Hutchinson and big Bob MacDonald each got 2s, the other members of their foursome, 3s. Blue Mound is still only 6,270 yd. long, shorter than most championship links. In the qualifying rounds, an obscure Timber Point (L. I.) professional named Jimmy Hines, and Mortie Dutra, hulking brother of the hulking defending champion, tied for the medal with 138. Par 70 was broken or tied 16 times and the 31 out of 97 starters who qualified needed 146 or better. In the first round, Leo Diegel lost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: At Blue Mound | 8/21/1933 | See Source »

Phillips Brooks House will give out 25 Thanksgiving dinners to needy Cambridge families tomorrow according to E. I. Lane '2S, secretary...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: P. B. H. Aids Poor in Cambridge | 11/26/1930 | See Source »

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