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Word: againe (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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When plans for the New York World's Fair 1939 got under way, sharp little Billy Rose's nose smelt business. He was an old nose at Fairs: in 1936, when Dallas, Texas opened its resplendent Texas Centennial, Billy smartly staged a rival Centennial at Fort Worth, stole...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Show in Queens | 5/15/1939 | See Source »

Years ago plump, round-faced Josephine Hancock Logan and her husband set up annual awards for Chicago's famed Art Institute. Grieved by the "modernist" paintings which walked away with the prizes, Mrs. Logan four years ago declared war on her own awards, founded the Society for Sanity in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Verdicts of Sanity | 5/15/1939 | See Source »

Last week these adventures of a railroad empire came to a terse conclusion. Thomas H. Jones, lawyer of the George & Frances Ball Foundation, called Cleveland newsmen by long distance from Muncie and announced: "Messrs. Robert R. Young and Allan P. Kirby and their associates have surrendered to the foundation the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CARRIERS: Four Short Years | 5/15/1939 | See Source »

For ten years a Detroit insurance broker named R. T. Johnstone (neither of whose initials stands for anything) has been pestering Ford Motor Co. to take out a group insurance plan for its employes. Though balding, 37-year-old R. T. Johnstone is one of the nation's largest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INSURANCE: Third Largest | 5/15/1939 | See Source »

In 1904 a young Czech named Thomas Bat'a (rhymes with "hotcha") left his small shoe factory in Zlin to study mass production methods in the U. S. He applied what he learned so well that by the World War his Zlin factory was turning out 6,000 pairs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANUFACTURING: Bat'a's Belcamp | 5/15/1939 | See Source »

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