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Word: books (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...French confrere, is returning to an old job. In 1914 he was the first British munitions buyer to reach the U. S. His peacetime job is president of Canadian Industries, Ltd. (makers of explosives, fertilizers, paint, plastics, industrial chemicals) which means he knows the chemical industry like a book...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN TRADE: Profiseering | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

...when William Peter Hamilton died, Dow, Jones & Co. needed a new high priest to lead the Dow cult of stockmarket analysis. They published some of Rhea's "notebooks" in Barron's weekly. The next year Rhea put his ideas on Dow lore into a book and, after publishers refused it as a white elephant, published it himself and sold over 90,000 copies. Letters began to pile up on the foot of Rhea's bed, and, unable to answer them individually, he one morning sent out a note to the effect that if & when he had anything...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Prophet in Bed | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

Raymond Friedman of Clayton, Missouri, and Wigglesworth Hall B-22 won the competition for advertising manager of the Freshman Red Book which started on November 2, Maxwell Kaufer of Kingston, Pennsylvania and Grays Hall 11-12 was made assistant manager...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 1943 Red Book Announced Its Advertising Executives | 11/18/1939 | See Source »

...competition for members of the Advertising Staff of the Red Book will be open until Christmas. There will be competitions for the other boards after the mid-year examination. legally rescinded...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 1943 Red Book Announced Its Advertising Executives | 11/18/1939 | See Source »

...exhibition room will be equipped with show cases donated by the Widener heirs, in which will be exhibited book treasures both from the Library itself and from the Widener collection which immediately adjoins the new center...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NEW EXHIBIT CENTER TO OPEN IN WIDENER | 11/17/1939 | See Source »

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