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Word: expositioneers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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The Board of Management of the western World's Fair long ago determined that there would be no T.T. (Toilet Trouble) at this Exposition. No concessionaires will be in the comfort station business to the discomfort of the visitors.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 12, 1938 | 9/12/1938 | See Source »

Nudism, as an organized movement, started in Germany in the early 20s, went ahead by serious leaps and dignified bounds until 1933, when the German body put on a brown shirt. From Germany the cult spread to France, England and the U. S., where it was popularly regarded as high...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Nudist Convention | 8/22/1938 | See Source »

"The U. S. for some years has been the leading exporter among the nations of the world. . . . We export, on the average, more than one-third of our total production of leaf tobacco, half of our cotton, half of our phosphate rock and between a fourth and a half of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE GOVERNMENT: Open Door | 8/8/1938 | See Source »

At the International Petroleum Exposition in Tulsa, Okla., Franks Manufacturing Corp. put on display a new, aluminum-colored, portable rotary drilling rig which can be mounted on an automobile trailer. It attracted little attention. Just to have something to do, attendants started up the rig and began to drill. At...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Exhibit | 5/30/1938 | See Source »

Jig, a line gang boss on a railroad electrification job, tells the story in his own words-a wisecracking lineman's lingo in which an angry character "arcs," gets "hotter than a wet switch''; a nosey one gets "ideas his head ain't insulated for." Like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Electrified Romance | 5/16/1938 | See Source »

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