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Dates: during 1930-1939
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¶ Suggested steps for getting a job: 1) buy a loose-leaf notebook; 2) keep a record of findings about yourself and possible careers; 3) prepare yourself for a particular career before you start hunting.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Job Hunters | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

Last fortnight, just before his contract with the World-Telegram expired (TIME, Dec. 11), Broun signed a new contract with the New York Post. Then in Connecticut he took to his bed with bronchitis. To the World-Telegram, a few days earlier than usual, he sent his annual Christmas parable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Last Column | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

Famed for her parties was the late Mrs. Alexander Hamilton Rice. Until she dropped dead two years ago while shopping in Paris, her tennis-week ball was the No. 1 social event of the Newport season. Lavish was the word for her entertainments at her other mansions in Palm Beach...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Brother-in-Law | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

When Artist Hoffman dislikes one of his pictures, he paints another over it. Failures lurk behind most of his canvases. Thus hidden is the painting that first brought him fame-Rubbish, which showed a derelict sitting next to an ashcan. "When I do a bad thing," he says, "I want...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Mine Painter | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

When the British pound was at its prewar level (near par: $4.86), ?230 ($1,117.80) per ton would have been a good price for tin-equivalent (with the cost of freight and insurance) to about 48? per Ib. As the world's biggest user of tin, the U. S...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRADE: Tin Relaxed | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

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