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Word: forli (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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But Business, not Astronomy, is the loudest and strongest change urger. For under the present irregular system, accounting is beset by problems when it tries to compare the costs of months whose working days vary in number.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Sol | 12/23/1929 | See Source »

Charged in the suit was that the defendants had conspired to defraud the government by arranging the sale of the seized Bosch property for $4,500,000, some $5,000,000 less than it was allegedly worth.* Since if the suit were won the proceeds would eventually go to the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Bosch Settlement | 12/23/1929 | See Source »

Because this item was widely used, members of the Association were happy. No association of doctors or fussy housekeepers, the Soap Association is composed of powerful soap manufacturers who control about 80% of U. S. production, whose publicizing subsidiary, Cleanliness Institute, during the past three years contributed $3,000,000...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Cleanliness Institute | 12/23/1929 | See Source »

Bankrupt. The Provincetown Players, discoverers in 1916 of Playwright Eugene O'Neill, when they gave his Bound East for Cardiff in a shack on a wharf in Provincetown, Mass. This winter they moved up from their small Greenwich Village theatre to Broadway. Subscribers' pledges of some $60,000...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Dec. 23, 1929 | 12/23/1929 | See Source »

Died. Professor Fred Neher, 62, for 38 years a Princeton faculty member; at Princeton, N. J.; after a three-week illness. Wartime consultant of U. S. Chemical Warfare Service of the Bureau of Mines, he devised antidotes for poison gases.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Dec. 23, 1929 | 12/23/1929 | See Source »

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