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Word: extends (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...previously invisible corn out of the hat, gave Cargill a severe drubbing as the price fell 27?. Last week brokers suspected that Cargill was out to get even. However, there was little chance that a serious squeeze would materialize, for the Secretary of Agriculture has power to extend trading to prevent such things. Last week the Commodity Exchange Administration was visibly disturbed, uttered warnings about manipulation and presently the Chicago Board of Trade Clearing House Association doubled the margins on September corn (from 4? to 8?) to discourage new speculation. At week's end longs reluctantly liquidated enough corn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Harvest Moon | 9/27/1937 | See Source »

...this, however, the skill of the fresco painter has depended largely on his speed, because the time limit for doing any section of wall before the plaster gets too dry to absorb colors has never been more than 24 hours. Artists familiar with centuries of failures to extend this limit were electrified last week at a report from Mexico City that a way had been discovered to keep plaster fresh for nearly two-and-one-half days...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Fresh Frescoes | 9/20/1937 | See Source »

...Germany, Italy. Switzerland, Albania, El Salvador, Nicaragua and Guatemala it has been for almost a year an autonomous state. Significantly, the Vatican, too-which, whatever else may be said, works as hard over its diplomacy as any first class power-chose the day after Santander's fall to extend de facto recognition. Having cooled his heels in Rome for three months. Pablo de Churruca, Marques de Aycimena, accredited Chargé d'Affaires to the Lateran Palace from General Franco's Government, was summoned by the Papal Secretary of State, Eugenic Cardinal Pacelli, who graciously, if belatedly, accepted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: El Caudillo | 9/6/1937 | See Source »

Jacob mushrooms grow in concrete, aluminum-painted "houses" which are filled with beds of manure compost and kept pitch-dark. Lumps of spawn are pushed into the compost about eight inches apart. In three weeks fine, white, hairlike mycelia extend from top to bottom. Then a "casing" of loam is put on top and in three weeks more the first white pinheads pop out. Each bed bears well for two or three months. Then the tired manure is stripped off, sold to golf courses as a top dressing for $1.50 a ton. The mushrooms themselves, fat, firm and thick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Snow Apples | 9/6/1937 | See Source »

...Public Administration building will bear the name of the donor and will be in Georgian style, four stories high, and about 250 feet long and 50 feet wide. The structure will face toward Harvard Square and will extend westward approximately from the present eastern end of the Hemenway gymnasium to the triangle in front of Austin Hall...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Littauer School, Features Summer News | 9/1/1937 | See Source »

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