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Word: abouts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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None of these projects, however, promises the U. S. self-sufficiency in tin. Phelps Dodge now produces only at the rate of 1,200 tons a year, Argentinian production is only about 1,700 tons a year. U. S. peacetime needs are 6-7,000 tons a month (current needs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: METALS: Tintinnabulations | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

Nick Charles reluctantly interrupts his drinking this time when guests of harumphing Colonel Burr McFay (C. Aubrey Smith) are awakened by a shot to find that the old man's throat has been cut. Suspect are various heirs and retainers of McFay and a clammy Cuban (Sheldon Leonard) who...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Dec. 11, 1939 | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

Hilarious scene: Nick's underworld friends bringing their babies (about two dozen) to sing Happy Birthday to Nick Jr. When they proffer baloney, salami, beer and pop for refreshments, Nick sends for ice cream. "It will be up in a minute," he says. Queasy Nora's ageless comeback...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Dec. 11, 1939 | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

Rulers of the Sea (Paramount). Douglas Fairbanks Jr. and Margaret Lockwood in a yarn about a Scottish mechanic who invents a marine engine to replace sails on transatlantic ships, and his struggle to get it accepted. Through a welter of Scottish brrrrrrs, auld corbies, hoot mons, arson, engine trouble and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Also Showing | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

The last six weeks roughly marked the peak of the fall book season. In that time appeared about 50 novels, representing the labor of about 50 man years. TIME has reviewed the best seven. The remainder have given employment to hundreds of publishers' minions. They will give diversion to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fifty Man Years | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

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