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Word: adds (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...capped these revelations by announcing that portable transmitters would soon add 25 cities to the 26 already on the Wirephoto circuit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Hot Shots | 3/9/1936 | See Source »

...Boston last week Massachusetts' Governor James Michael Curley told a gathering of Democrats that he had spent $115,000 out of his own pocket to help carry Massachusetts for Roosevelt in 1932, had since been rewarded with not one Federal job to add to his patronage list. Declaring himself still a Roosevelt supporter, the bluff, red-faced Irish Governor, who is now a candidate for U. S. Senator, wistfully observed that it was one of the tragedies of politics that one was not always able to pay off political obligations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Tragedy | 3/9/1936 | See Source »

...morning American. Fifteen hundred copies of the American containing the World-Telegram advertisement were on the streets when a command came straight from Publisher Hearst to stop the presses, strike it out. Meantime the Journal's panicky editors were ordered on about twelve hours' notice to add a new eight-page section to their Saturday edition, solved the problem by concocting an amusement section with cuts blown up to enormous size...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Hearst Strikeout | 3/9/1936 | See Source »

...acquiring many a competitor in the course of its long and lucrative life, National Lead is probably responsible for at least half the U. S. output of painters' materials. Best known product is Dutch Boy white lead - paint base made of lead carbonate and lin seed oil. Add more linseed oil, turpentine and drier, and the paint is ready to apply. Add various tinting materials and the white paint assumes any desired color. National Lead aLso makes red lead, used most conspicuously as an anti-rust coating for structural steel. It has a line of lead alloys, particularly Babbitt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Split and Up | 3/9/1936 | See Source »

...becoming a doctor in order to save the life of the girl he loves. Robert Taylor is the man and Irene Dunne the girl but unfortunately Taylor's acting does not approach he mature work of his leading lady who holds the spotlight. Charles Butterworth and Henry Armetta add their typical bits of humor as newly-wed and valet respectively. It is a generally mediocre piece but entertaining, nevertheless...

Author: By S. C. S., | Title: The Crimson Moviegoer | 2/28/1936 | See Source »

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