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Word: buts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Old (67) John Kelly, a teetotaler, would not even have a thimbleful of whiskey at his party, but he sat down at his typewriter and batted out the news for happy Walla Wallans to read in the morning editions of his newspaper.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANUFACTURING: Father of Peas | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

(The Federal Reserve Board reports both figures weekly. Bank debits-the total of all checks cashed-account fairly closely for all the business done in the U. S., for even a cash transaction, such as an employer paying off his workmen with currency, is customarily preceded by drawing a check...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Index Year | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

Trade centre turnover and the Federal Reserve Board production index again moved roughly parallel during the next period in which business began to take hope of autumn improvement. But in August the two parted company for the rest of the year, for in that month the production index practically ceased...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Index Year | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

Not Associated directly, but its good operating company, NY PA NJ Utilities Co. (Nypan), is trying to borrow money so that Associated can pay off an $8,589,-980 (8%) bond issue which is due March 15, 1940. Also overdue is $5,780,000 owed the U. S. Treasury by...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Personnel: Mr. Jones's Proteges | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

As the centuries passed, the classically prim Italian operas were forgotten, but the frowsy Beggar's Opera became a classic. Last week the Beggar's Opera even made the 20th-century radio, when a company under Conductor Josef Honti gave it a first broadcast over NBC's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Beggar's Opera | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

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