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Word: forli (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Second prize of $10,000 went to Miss Laura Rott of Naperville, Ill. for her mint surprise cookies; third prize of $4,000 to Mrs. R. W. Sprague of San Marino, Calif, for her Carrie's Creole chocolate cake.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PUBLICITY: $50,000 Twist | 12/26/1949 | See Source »

For the better part of a century, London has been the world's diamond capital. There the British-dominated diamond cartel has held the famed "sights" at which it sells its uncut stones. Last year Britain re-exported ?35 million ($98 million) worth of diamonds, more than half of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN TRADE: Bargains in Tangier | 12/26/1949 | See Source »

Many London merchants sold their gems not at the pegged pound rate, but for cheaper pounds in the free money market in Tangier, thereby losing Britain many dollars. But the dealers had little choice. If they had sold their gems at the official rate, Dutch and Belgian dealers would have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN TRADE: Bargains in Tangier | 12/26/1949 | See Source »

Last week the London-Tangier diamond trade, which had enabled U.S. dealers to get gems for one-sixth under their London price, received a mortal blow. In London's Clerkenwell Court, I. Hennig & Co., Ltd., one of Britain's most respected diamond merchants, was convicted of customs evasion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN TRADE: Bargains in Tangier | 12/26/1949 | See Source »

Minute Maid Corp., one of the first companies to market frozen orange juice, last week became the owner of its own fruit groves. For $5,000,000, it bought 4,700 acres of orange and grapefruit groves near its three processing plants in Florida from Di Giorgio Fruit Corp., one...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AGRICULTURE: Growing Maid | 12/26/1949 | See Source »

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