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Word: following (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Therefore, it must follow that since the hole-in-one was the result of planned deliberation on your part, your failure to get a hole-in-one at any time is necessarily the result of an accident. The ball does not conform with your plans since you struck it in a manner other than that which you intended...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Letters, Aug. 21, 1939 | 8/21/1939 | See Source »

...saying, he upped the price of his principal finished product (gasoline) by a half-cent a gallon in 42 States where Consolidated's wholly-owned subsidiary, Sinclair Refining Co., has filling stations. This was an invitation for the rest of the business to follow suit and get some of the profits in a year when motor fuel sales were running nearly 5% over record...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PETROLEUM: Sinclair's Alternative | 8/21/1939 | See Source »

This time Harry Sinclair's leadership was followed. Standard of New Jersey's marketing subsidiary, Humble Oil & Refining Co., cut its posted prices 5? to 32?. Cities Service and Bell Oil & Gas cut 20?, like Sinclair. Standard of Indiana was expected to follow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PETROLEUM: Sinclair's Alternative | 8/21/1939 | See Source »

Since then Fred Nolan has kept his heavy undershot jaw set for his two favorite principles: 1) that transportation, like any other commodity, must be cheap to be sold in quantity and at a profit; 2) that transportation must follow population...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CARRIERS: Low-Fare Nolan | 8/14/1939 | See Source »

...after Lévy-Ruhlmann's murder, is wrongly accused of the crime and convicted. Novel's end comes in June 1936, the month the Front Populaire took office, with Stéphane's execution a dark symbol foreshadowing the political schisms that are to follow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Landscape with Figures | 8/7/1939 | See Source »

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