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...compact electric system serving 1,580,000 people in & around Long Beach, Calif. It has an unbroken dividend record, has covered interest charges an average of 2.79 times in the last ten years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SECURITIES: Economy Harry | 10/28/1940 | See Source »

...right too. Twice a year, like the ladies, they get a tank car of linseed oil with which to speculate. When business is slack they retire to a game room, play ping-pong and poker on company time. All but three have relatives on Scientific's staff-a compact nepotism summed up by O. E. with parental pride: "It's a Tinkers-to-Evers-to-Chance payroll and never lets the ball get out of the infield...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Benign Boss | 10/14/1940 | See Source »

...used to short wave to North America to be shared by Canada and the U. S. With swing bands and torch singers, brisk news and political comments, Britain Speaks (on every evening at 7:30 E.D.S.T.) is at its best when Novelist-Playwright John Boynton Priestley holds forth. Compact as a beer mug, with a voice as mellow as ancient ale, Priestley has a pronounced Yorkshire accent which falls more pleasantly on American ears than the nasal whinnys of Oxford...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Lively Britons | 7/29/1940 | See Source »

...summer would be 4,333,000 at least. Opening day paid admissions last year were 128,697; opening day three weeks ago at the 1940 New York World's Fair: 191,196. Other differences between 1940's two folksy fairs: San Francisco's is more compact, its attractions are easier to get around to, and it is less pretentious, prettier. It also has less debt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CALIFORNIA: Cut-Rate Golden Gate | 6/3/1940 | See Source »

Conceived with the hope of grouping into one compact, efficient organization all students who are in favor of peace, a new drive has been started by the Student Union, which is offering a special Anti-war membership to members of the University...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Student Union Offers Anti-War Membership | 5/27/1940 | See Source »

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