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Word: downe (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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So the crop condition of winter wheat last week was 59.4% of normal, lowest on record, and a harvest of only 389,000,000 bushels is expected (down 43.3% from this year) and the price of wheat soared from 87!^ Nov. 28, past the haloed $1 mark to hit a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATE OF BUSINESS: Dollar Wheat | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

¶ At the end of August, zinc sold at 4¾? a Ib. With war, its price rose to 6½? - a rise of 47% which precipitated no end of buying and production for inventory. Then sales began to dry up. Fortnight ago, American Smelting and Refining Co. dropped the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATE OF BUSINESS: Dollar Wheat | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

¶ Most business and Government-guess-timators agree that in the first half, 1940 business will be down from fourth quarter 1939, but it appeared that one cushion which may pad the fall might be auto production. The fourth quarter of the calendar year is first quarter of the auto...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATE OF BUSINESS: Dollar Wheat | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

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 »

This embarrassing letter, in 1897, gave pause to the editors of the staid New York Sun. But not for long. Next day. in an editorial written by Editor Francis Pharcellus Church, the Sim answered in a fearless affirmative. "Not believe in Santa Claus!" it blustered, "You might as well not...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Editorial Cantata | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

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