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Word: fared (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...plot go as it will, Thin Man Powell still has his arched eyebrows and highball glass. Thin Girl Loy her wardrobe, and Asta his hydrant. Those elements which made the first "Thin Man" such a smash are still there, an overtone of top-notch fare tripping lightly over the blood and gore. Hence "Another Thin Man" is enjoyable entertainment, even if a bit mentally exhausting...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 2/2/1940 | See Source »

With this fare-thee-well three years ago, the sleek, sharp-tongued, C. I. O.-hating bad boy of Canadian politics, Ontario's Premier Mitchell Frederick Hepburn, broke with his Party chief, Canada's Prime Minister. Ever since then the two men have avoided and talked about each other like a couple of feuding Corsicans. Last week Mitchell Hepburn took a potshot at William Lyon Mackenzie King...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRITISH DOMINIONS: Terrible Infants | 1/29/1940 | See Source »

...Best to fare in reorganization are the holders of $13,715,000 in equipment trust certificates whose loans went to keep MOP in first-class operating condition. They will be paid dollar for dollar. RFC, which lent MOP $23,134,800 to keep above water, and now has an additional $8,630,000 interest claim, gets $25,994,000 in bonds, the balance in cash and preferred stock. Holders of senior bonds get niggling amounts of cash, trade in the balance of their bonds for new MOP's prime security, ten-year collateral trust notes. Some junior bonds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CARRIERS: R. R. Surgery | 1/29/1940 | See Source »

...definitely in favor," said he, "of the railroads meeting the challenge of bus competition, which so far we in the east have not done." So far as he was concerned the 2? fare was just what the harried railroads needed, and he plumped resoundingly for a 1½? round-trip fare along with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CARRIERS: Two-Center | 1/15/1940 | See Source »

Passenger Traffic Manager Walter B. Galloway reported that B. & O. had found out what the high fare meant just two months after it went into effect. From the Washington terminal its 1938 Labor Day traffic was the lowest in history, while the bus lines were hiring everything on wheels to move the holiday traffic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CARRIERS: Two-Center | 1/15/1940 | See Source »

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