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Word: abouts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Brother George, after he left St. Michael's College in Toronto, worked for Swift & Co. in Chicago, then for Quaker Oats. After a few years he set up as a broker (Morrow & Co.) in the New York Produce and Sugar Exchanges. He took a hand in Gold Dust Corp. of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Two Morrows | 9/2/1929 | See Source »

Producers Outlets. Prairie Oil & Gas Co., once part of the extinct Standard Oil, a large producer (but not a retailer), of oil in Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas and Wyoming was last week reported about to merge with Sinclair, thereby acquiring a retailing agency. From jail, Chairman Sinclair admitted "through a friend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: The Oily Deep | 9/2/1929 | See Source »

Wood Pulp. Ten of the largest saw mills in northern Sweden, producing about one-fifth of Sweden's pulp and having assets of $75,000,000, were last week merged by the formation of a holding company to be controlled by Kreuger & Toll (financial company of the Swedish match...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Deals & Mergers | 9/2/1929 | See Source »

The play takes three and one-half hours. The time is the unspecified future. The hero is the King of England. In the first act, the King resists the attempts of his Cabinet to deprive him of the right of veto. In the second, he talks tediously with his mistress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: New Shaw Play | 9/2/1929 | See Source »

Hallelujah (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Before the end of this picture you get the idea that King Vidor, who wrote and directed it, does not know much about Negroes but that he has guessed and reasoned out a lot. His story, simple yet sophisticated, does not go as deep into the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Pictures: Sep. 2, 1929 | 9/2/1929 | See Source »

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