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Word: cut (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Juan amidships. 3) The San Juan sank in ten minutes. Beyond that there was no agreement. One said no lifeboats were lowered from the San Juan. Another said there were. "The crew was cowardly," blurted an angry survivor. Capt. H. O. Bleumchen of the Dodd testified: "The San Juan cut right across our path. Then I heard her three bells [reverse signal]. If she had gone on, there'd have been no crash...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CATASTROPHE: Off Pigeon Point | 9/9/1929 | See Source »

Socony (Standard Oil Co. of New York ) opened hostilities by announcing the price cut "to equalize its prices with that of other dealers in the field." Sinclair and Beacon Oil (subsidiary of Standard Oil of New Jersey) promptly followed suit without comment. Texaco and Shell merely remarked that they were adjusting their prices to those of their competitors. Gulf, Tidewater, Pure Oil and others followed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Again, Socony v. Shell | 9/9/1929 | See Source »

Last week the umpire, level-headed Mr. Justice Rigby Swift, announced the decision: Instead of the 12½% wage reduction demanded by mill owners, spinners and weavers must accept a cut...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Palliative | 9/2/1929 | See Source »

Late to arrive in Minneapolis was Arthur Hind, Utica, N. Y. plush tycoon, owner of the "world's rarest stamp," the only known 1¢ British Guiana of 1856, for which he paid $32,500. philately's greatest price. Cut octagonally, magenta in color, not a particularly good specimen as stamps go, this unique scrap of paper was "discovered" in 1872, when it sold for six shillings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Philatelists | 9/2/1929 | See Source »

Fourth Day. The sun rose at 2 a. m. The Graf Zeppelin kept north of war-troubled Manchuria, reached the sea, cut south down the Japanese Archipelago. The Japanese Government asked Commander Eckener by radio if he approved being cited "the guest of the nation." He replied that he preferred "a few hours' rest and sleep first." However, upon landing courtesy obliged him to eat dried chestnuts, dried cuttle fish, drink saki...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Berlin to Tokyo | 8/26/1929 | See Source »

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