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Word: evens (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...even so versatile a genius as Alec Templeton can hold 6,000,000 radio listeners for a full half hour. So Alec Templeton Time employs guest stars, an orchestra under Symphonist Daniel Saiden-berg, a 16-voice chorus, and, for the last month an Old Country crowd pleaser named James Patrick Rudolph Francis O'Malley...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Templeton Time | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

...important as further dust control, says the report, is prevention of tuberculosis, which spreads like wildfire through the ramshackle huts. "As a result of overcrowded living conditions it is not unusual for a silicotic father, infected with tuberculosis, to share the same room or even the same bed with his children, even though he is continually showering the air with germs when he coughs." The miners, who are 90% native-born, live in the most abysmal ignorance of the nature of their disease. One tried to check his silicosis by giving up chewing tobacco. Another said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Zinc Stink | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

Only once did he break his quota, in 1937 when rising prices forced him to hike it $200,000 to keep his unit production constant. Even so, he turned down at least $150,000 worth of business that year. But never has he turned down so much business as lately-$300,000 worth in one month-for something has happened to the furniture industry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Not War | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

...Even if Canada gets only the drippings from the British order spigot, the Canadian aircraft industry has growth ahead. If the war lasts long enough and orders are big enough, Canada by war's end will not in future have to buy her planes from U. S. makers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: War in Canada | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

...bitterly outspoken against censorship were Britain's publishers in the first weeks of the war that Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain was forced to separate censorship from the Ministry of Information, reorganize both. But the French press, except for sly references to Anastasie, is not even allowed to point out the censor's errors. Parisians are still chuckling over a critical essay: titled "Censure et Propa-gande" that appeared lately in L'Europe Nouvelle. The whole article was a blank, and bore the legend: "Censure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Anastasie | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

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