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Word: departmental (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Statistics. To prove his point that current concentration of economic power is unexampled, the President quoted familiar statistics from reports to the Bureau of Internal Revenue: 1) .1% of U. S. corporations own 52% of all corporate assets, get 50% of all corporate income, less than 5% of U. S...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDUSTRY: Anti-Monopoly | 5/9/1938 | See Source »

Because she has overstayed her leave in the U. S., the Department of Labor ordered the arrest, when found, of Animal Tamer Mme Maria Rasputin Soloviev, statuesque daughter of "Mad Monk" Grigoriy Rasputin, spiritual adviser to the late Tsarina of Russia. Where Mme Soloviev was taming animals last week the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, May 9, 1938 | 5/9/1938 | See Source »

In the opinion of blunt Manhattan Park Commissioner Robert Moses, "Barnum had his sacred white elephant and every fair is entitled to at least one theme tower." More irreverent remarks than this have been made about the esthetic and symbolic value of the Fair's great ball and spike...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Ball & Spike | 5/9/1938 | See Source »

A surprising feature of the agreement was the lumping into one of all kitchen and dining-hall employees. Other groups were the maids, the male caretakers, the maintenance department, the operating engineers, the non-operating engineers, the H.A.A. employees, the press and bindery employees, and the patrolmen. In the last...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: STATE BOARD PROBES HARVARD LABOR SETUP | 5/7/1938 | See Source »

Blooming by day in the Radcliffe, Yard, but modestly retiring into a cellar at five o'clock every day, a four-foot tulip has been amazing passersby. This horticultural marvel, is, however, only a department store creation, built up from wire and paper.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FREAKISH FOUR-FOOT TULIP ASTONISHES ALL RADCLIFFE | 5/4/1938 | See Source »

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