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Word: fewness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last fortnight, just before his contract with the World-Telegram expired (TIME, Dec. 11), Broun signed a new contract with the New York Post. Then in Connecticut he took to his bed with bronchitis. To the World-Telegram, a few days earlier than usual, he sent his annual Christmas parable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Last Column | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

¶ Neatest financial trick of the week was accomplished by Secretary of Agriculture Henry Wallace: By reducing the Government subsidy on cotton exports, he helped boost the price of cotton. He originally got a $36,000,000 fund with which to subsidize exports. He spent about $32,500,000, paying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATE OF BUSINESS: Dollar Wheat | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

When Hopson became ill, Associated was controlled by a junta consisting of his old partner J. I. Mange; Hopson's three sisters (Norma Jones, Perle Hopson, Amy Starch) ; his brother-in-law, Commercial Research's famed Dr. Daniel Starch. A few weeks ago Mr. Mange went calling on...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Personnel: Mr. Jones's Proteges | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

If the great boom had given Associated a few more palmy years, it might have succeeded in merging with another $1,000,000,000 system, Standard Gas and Electric Co. Standard runs 26 operating utilities, among them Pittsburgh's large Duquesne Light Co. and Wisconsin Public Service Co. For...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Personnel: Mr. Jones's Proteges | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

In October the fourth annual New Directions anthology came out with its usual preface by its rich (steel), shrewd 25-year-old editor, James Laughlin IV, who puts it together in a remodeled barn on his uncle's Connecticut estate. "We are drifting into an era of journalese," warned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Talking & Doing | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

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