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Word: fewness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Pay Off? The $4,900,000 which the San Francisco Fair must pay off to break even is only about 10% of the $50,000,000 invested in the Exposition. There are few figures to show whether the exhibitors who spent an estimated $13,000,000, the State which gave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Regilded Gate | 9/4/1939 | See Source »

Poland for months has been lambasted daily by radio from Germany, but the broadcasts reach comparatively few Polish ears. Despite a money-making radio monopoly, Polskie Radio, in which the Government has a 40% share, Poland is not a radio-minded country. Of the estimated 1,000,000-odd-listeners...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Battlefield | 9/4/1939 | See Source »

Scoops were few. The U. P. got a beat on the first German soldier killed in Poland. H. R. Knickerbocker of I. N. S. cabled an exclusive on Hitler's statement that he would rather fight now than later. Headlines were big and bold, but not as big and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Big Story | 9/4/1939 | See Source »

Married. John William Maxwell Ait ken, 29, fast-flying elder son of Britain's No. 1 newspaper publisher, Lord Beaverbrook (London Daily Express)* himself publisher of the Sunday Express; anc Cynthia Monteith; in London. An officer in the auxiliary air force, Aitken left ; few hours after the wedding to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Sep. 4, 1939 | 9/4/1939 | See Source »

Delano Forbes preferred to pass her remaining days in her Paris home. Cool and capable, she helped her sister pack, warmly embraced her, watched her motor off for Le Havre. Few hours later, aboard United States liner Washington, the President's mother joined Grandson John, his wife Anne Clark...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Going Home | 9/4/1939 | See Source »

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