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Word: fines (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...going to try it!" snapped Magistrate F. O. Langly. who imposed a fine of 40 shillings and ordered Auctioneer Penfold to post ?50 ($250) surety that he will not bait Jews for twelve months...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Character | 9/7/1936 | See Source »

...team of Ginger Rogers & Fred Astaire currently the No. 1 cinema attraction of the world. It contains: three major routines by Rogers & Astaire, one by Astaire alone in blackface; six songs by Jerome Kern and Dorothy Fields of which at least two, The Way You Look Tonight and A Fine Romance, are likely to be hits; a story in which Astaire, as a dancer, and Rogers, as a dance teacher, are united after financial and emotional vicissitudes contributed mainly by the ex-fiancée of one and the exboyfriend of the other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Sep. 7, 1936 | 9/7/1936 | See Source »

...Announced last October was another grandiose French air race-around the world for $200,000-to ballyhoo the Paris Fine Arts Exposition (TIME, Oct. 21). No mention has been made of the scheme since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Historical Event | 9/7/1936 | See Source »

Time works wonders and today Minnesota is thriving on its wheat and corn and is known the world over for its fine flour though corn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Alchemy of Time | 9/7/1936 | See Source »

...price to put a quietus on a new form of platinum trading. In Manhattan two months ago a syndicate headed by Alexander Eisemann & Co., assisted by International Platinum Corp., began issuing warehouse receipts against platinum. Buying platinum at wholesale, they had it melted into small rectangular ingots, .995 fine, weighing 3 oz. and so certified by Handy & Harman, well-known assayers. The ingots, each stamped with an identifying number and placed in a small fibre box, were put in the custody of the safe deposit affiliate of Manhattan's Chemical Bank & Trust Co. which issued warehouse certificates against them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Platinum Boom | 9/7/1936 | See Source »

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