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Word: brought (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Arnold, greying Chief of the Air Corps, surveyed with particular approval her twin engines, Prestone-cooled V12 Allisons of 1,000 horsepower each, faired trimly into the metal wing. Well he knew that broad-beamed radial air-cooled motors, such as the big U. S. engine builders have brought to perfection, could not be used on such a ship without protruding in speed-killing humps on the wing's leading edges, that only the Allison (TIME, Jan. 30) could do the job cut out for the new fighter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Sleek, Fast and Luckless | 2/20/1939 | See Source »

Best dog in the show, for the second year in succession: Exquisite Model of Ware, a four-year-old black, white and tan cocker spaniel bitch. Most popular exhibit of merchandise : a gasproof kennel brought out in ''Crisis Week," in which any movement of the dog operates a bel lows under the floor, forces fresh air through respirators...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: 53rd Cruft's | 2/20/1939 | See Source »

Most economists agree that sustained U. S. recovery depends on a real rise in demand for producer goods. Last week there were signs of such a rise. Meanwhile, General Motors' report on 1938 earnings brought home last year's ominous disparity between recovery in consumer and producer goods...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATE OF BUSINESS: Steam Up | 2/20/1939 | See Source »

This headline-making distraction brought a hot retort from Metropolitan President Leroy Lincoln, who interrupted to snort: "I never heard of this being done and I am sure that no responsible officer of the company ever knew of or countenanced any such practice!" It also brought protests from other Metropolitan agents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE GOVERNMENT: Swing Session | 2/20/1939 | See Source »

...before leading Metropolitan's self-made Chairman Frederick H. Ecker onto the floor, Bill Douglas reassured the 64,000,000 people in the U. S. with life insurance policies (45% of them with Metropolitan). Said he: "No policyholder need have any concern that any fact brought out in this inquiry will in any way jeopardize the protection which he counts upon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE GOVERNMENT: Swing Session | 2/20/1939 | See Source »

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