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Word: fairs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...doing is the old camouflage, Frankensteen, and you know it. . . .Now you want a new contract and we are willing to negotiate with you. So bring in your negotiating committee and your demands and let's get down to business. We are ready again to make a fair contract but not to let you run our plants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Moonshine & Camouflage | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

...production. It was in 1936 that Britain finally woke up to the appalling state of her Air Force. At the end of last year Britain was producing only about 200 planes a month, but by last week they had almost achieved a rate of 1,000 per month, bade fair to overtake the German rate soon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IN THE AIR: 72-Hour War? | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

Year ago Bubble-dancer Rand told a Broadway columnist she planned to retire as a rich old maid of 60, live on her annuities. This year she launched her Dnude Ranch at San Francisco's Fair-this time as proprietress, while other young women did the physical labor. By Sept. 30 she had netted $32,433. Meanwhile, business looked so good that she opened a second show, Gay Paree...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AMUSEMENTS: Assets: $8,067 | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

...topped receivables by $500,000. To meet these quick obligations it had $1,000,000 cash. In New York, as in San Francisco, October's attendance is proving the best of the year (2,492,096 paid admissions for the first two weeks). It looked as if the Fair, by closing day, might just about pay off all but about $500,000 of its current debts. But the bald-faced fact was that no Fair official expected there would be a penny left to pay the outstanding $23,982,808 of the Fair's original...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Tomorrow and 1940 | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

...call to the Traveler Book Fair office revealed that a "red haired Harvard" had called on Mr. Marquand and had said he would wait when he was told that the author would not be in Boston until Tuesday. It was not revealed where he was waiting...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sophomore Steals Out of Stillman to Stymie Scribbler | 10/20/1939 | See Source »

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