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Word: douglases (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Missouri - a field goal against the New Deal in the renomination of Senator Bennett Champ Clark. This adverse score was light because Senator Clark was not actively fought by Roosevelt & Co., and his two 100% New Deal opponents were worthy political nobodies. The heaviness (400,000 majority) of the vote...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Six Primaries | 8/15/1938 | See Source »

U. S. Steel $64,735,215 d$6,302,577 Bethlehem Steel 18,316,707 1,145,213 Westinghouse 11,331,772 4,500,602 Railroads Chesapeake & Ohio 15,462,607 5,523,568 Chicago, Burlington & Quincy 452,639 d 3,235,581 Building Materials Johns-Manville 2,881,334...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Profit & Loss | 8/8/1938 | See Source »

For the comparatively few people in the U. S. who are in a hurry to fly across the Atlantic, this will be a tantalizing summer. Last week the upper component of the British Short-Mayo Composite, the seaplane Mercury ("The piggyback plane"), arrived in Foynes, Eire, after an uneventful round...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Transatlantic | 8/8/1938 | See Source »

Howard Hopson blundered in letting his Associated Gas system buy a fat chunk of U. P. & L. Class B stock in the 1920s. when shares sold as high as $90; Class B shares are now selling at about $1 each. What is more, in receiverships, debentures come before stock. So...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PUBLIC UTILITIES: Aces over Kings | 8/1/1938 | See Source »

If this piqued the die-hards in the industry, they had cause to ponder too. For Bill Douglas, though disclaiming any further death sentence plans "because of our belief that the substantial companies in the industry are making progress" in designing such reorganizations, also declared: "This action on the part...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PUBLIC UTILITIES: Aces over Kings | 8/1/1938 | See Source »

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