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Word: abouts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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The line that Mr. James wants to build runs parallel to the coast, about 175 miles inland, from Klamath Falls, Ore., to Paxton, Calif. Only one through route, the Southern Pacific, exists between the Pacific Northwest and San Francisco. The James extension would join the Great Northern and the Western...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Battle in the West | 11/25/1929 | See Source »

Artist Robinson first concerned himself with medium-what to paint with, what on. He decided on canvas because he could then work anywhere and the murals, when finished, could be easily moved about. He then asked himself what paint had had the benefit of most research and chemical improvement. Obviously...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: History of Commerce | 11/25/1929 | See Source »

Winners & Losers. From a mass of rumors, little could be definitely learned about the course of individual fortunes. Paper losses of such stockholders as George Fisher Baker and Andrew William Mellon were estimated. On the other hand it was known that the State of New York had profited from the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Heroes, Wags, Sages | 11/25/1929 | See Source »

Painter Robinson's murals are each about 15 ft. x 8 ft. Beginning with an animated commercial squabble between the Persians and the Arabs, they progress to Carthaginians in the Mediterranean striking a crafty bargain with the Egyptians. Venetians in the Levant when bartering was done with benefit of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: History of Commerce | 11/25/1929 | See Source »

Grocer Feldman should know. Six times since January has his little store been entered and robbed by the same glib, ebony thief. The procedure has almost become a ritual. The Negro customarily surveys the store about closing hour (7:30 p. m.) to see that Grocer Feldman is alone, then...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Grocer | 11/25/1929 | See Source »

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