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Word: beene (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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But the U. S. has not been spared from getting down to cases about tanks, torpedo tubes, guns, engines, propeller shafts, observation instruments, etc. Manufacturing these requires one of the few basic materials the U. S. happens to lack-tin. So does manufacturing tin cans to hold the No. 1...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: METALS: Tintinnabulations | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

Over 80% of the U. S.'s annual tin imports (more than 75,000 tons in a "normal" year, 45% of the world's yearly production) comes from Asia, 18% from Europe, practically all of it is smelted in the British and Dutch empires. War at sea might...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: METALS: Tintinnabulations | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

Nick Charles reluctantly interrupts his drinking this time when guests of harumphing Colonel Burr McFay (C. Aubrey Smith) are awakened by a shot to find that the old man's throat has been cut. Suspect are various heirs and retainers of McFay and a clammy Cuban (Sheldon Leonard) who...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Dec. 11, 1939 | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

Tower of London (Universal) solves the problem of what to do next with a popular monster (Boris Karloff), who has already been deranged (The Lost Patrol), mummified (The Mummy), roasted alive (Frankenstein), resurrected (The Son of Frankenstein). Horror-man Karloff is now introduced to one of Hollywood's most...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Dec. 11, 1939 | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

In Chicago, meanwhile, Stone set up a firm of his own which was as brilliant commercially as the old partnership had been artistically. In 1900 he got a best seller, George Ade's More Fables in Slang. Next year he got another in George Barr McCutcheon's Graustark...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Young Man's Literature | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

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