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Word: againe (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week in Canton took place a currency operation that coolies understood and relished. Creeping past Japanese sentries on a quiet Sunday, 100 guerrillas raided the Japanese-owned Bank of Taiwan, bayoneted three guards, smashed open the safes, grabbed $260,000 in notes, $90,000 in silver coins, escaped with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR IN CHINA: Currency Warriors | 5/22/1939 | See Source »

Last week, this bit of history was memorable for Ford was again dangling an order before the trade, an order for only 5.000 tons, only an hour's run for the industry's continuous mills. But such was the state of the steel industry that the offer was...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATE OF BUSINESS: Ford Philosophy | 5/22/1939 | See Source »

As it did last October,-price cutting spread. Some steel prices dropped as much as $11 a ton or up to 20%. Characteristically, competing automen disputed Ford's claim for credit in securing the reduction. Meanwhile, large steel orders by the motormakers are probably two months off, for the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATE OF BUSINESS: Ford Philosophy | 5/22/1939 | See Source »

Last week old Dan Willard, eyes flashing, still insisted valiantly: "If I thought business conditions were to remain as bad as they are, I would say put us into receivership. . . . The railroads are going to :ome back again. ... I haven't lost confidence in the United States!"

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CARRIERS: Dan Willard's Friends | 5/22/1939 | See Source »

Corn-fed young Lochinvar of Midwest American writing in 1890 was Hamlin Garland. With sturdy grass-root realism his A Son of the Middle Border (1917) echoed the dissatisfaction of Populist farmers with Eastern banks and business, again surprised seaboard intellectuals into noting that there were literate settlements beyond Manhattan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Spirited | 5/22/1939 | See Source »

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