Word: ahead
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ahead of his homecoming colleagues, Ambassador Jesse Isidor Straus had already landed in the U. S. And last week ahead of all of them in the study of President Roosevelt was Ambassador Jefferson Caffery who poured good news from Havana into the Presidential ear: Since the negotiation of the reciprocal trade agreement with Cuba (TIME, Sept. 3), business there had picked up, Cubans were pulling out of the Depression...
...keeps it moist), the Feathertouch nib, the special Sheaffer pencil which "propels, repels and expels the lead," the Sheaffer Vacuum-Fil pen. By 1929 the company's gross sales had climbed to $8,000,000 and its profits, averaging more than $1,000,000, were ahead of those of one of its two rivals, Parker Pen Co. (The other, L. E. Waterman Co., has never published a financial statement...
...Manhattan offices of Edward B. Marks Music Corp. He speaks with a thick German accent, looks like an oldtime German music master with his white mustache, flowing necktie and fusty frock coat. Puttering about in the music business, Theodore Metz began last week to celebrate-a little ahead of time-the 50th anniversary of the composition of his No. 1 song, A Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight...
Thus, Harold Hales proposed last week to go right ahead with his fine presentation ceremony to the Rex at Genoa next month. The Rex will keep the Hales Trophy for three months. Then Hales will snatch it back, present it again in another fine ceremony to the Normandie...
...with the market value of their holdings gradually diminishing. In the same five years Goodyear has shown profits of $20,965,000 and Firestone $17,463,000. The company now proposes, without giving adequate reasons for doing so, to put $10,000,000 of additional first mortgage money ahead of your holdings, thus making your position even more unfavorable...