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Word: biddinger (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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To a large degree the excited bidding for Richfield, which has 6,350 outlets in California, was probably started by the oil industry's feeling that its own particular corner has been turned. Co-operation of domestic producers has boosted the U. S. price of crude and the big...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Richfield Wanted | 8/8/1932 | See Source »

While he was busy slashing overhead in Spur's spacious Madison Avenue offices (he began by making the magazine a monthly), Publisher Tichenor was telephoned by a friend that Outlook & Independent, which suspended publication in April, was that day to be auctioned by a bankruptcy referee. Funk & Wagnalls were bidding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Out Steps Tichenor | 7/11/1932 | See Source »

To the aid of their party, more than 2,000 delegates and alternates trooped into the city. Most of them wearied their feet on the hard floors of hotel lobbies, whispered unimportances, made use of Democratic Mayor Anton Joseph Cermak's free baseball and theatre tickets, waited to do...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REPUBLICANS: Cool & Damp | 6/20/1932 | See Source »

The explanation had been made and the matter was concluded. So too was the perplexing question of the Cinnamon balls. The young gentleman spied his dog in the distance and whistled him up. For a man of his Napoleonic stature, creatures, be they dumb or ever so valuable, were merely...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 6/15/1932 | See Source »

In Frederick, Md., at a sheriff's sale to satisfy a rent judgment against her, Mrs. Thomas Hargrave bid 5? for each lot of her household possessions and her automobile. For her carpet she bid 2?. Neighbors refrained from bidding. The sheriff realized $1.12.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: 50,000,000th | 6/6/1932 | See Source »

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