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Word: foxe (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...When you sight the fox say, "Yonder he goes." Say it quietly and "make sure first that it is a fox and not a cat or a cur dog. Don't say 'There it goes.' Do not get excited. Remember that foxes have been viewed and hallooed away for centuries. It is nothing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Foxcatcher Don'ts | 12/16/1929 | See Source »

...When the fox goes to ground, "do not ride up to the earth and try to look into it. There is nothing to see, only a hole. If you insist on making yourself useful, ask the huntsman if you may hold his horse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Foxcatcher Don'ts | 12/16/1929 | See Source »

...Hollywood are the new $75,000,000 studios of Fox Film Corp, Throughout the U. S. are some 1,200 theatres controlled by Fox Theatres Corp. In almost every country are Fox distributing agencies. In sole command of the Fox organization was, until last week, William Fox who from an investment of $1,667 built the entire structure, amassed a personal fortune once estimated at over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Fox Abdication | 12/16/1929 | See Source »

During the summer, Cineman Fox, proud of the quick expansion that had brought his organization Loew's Inc., Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, and the Gaumont Theatres in England, decided to consolidate all his holdings into one In September the authorized Class A stock of Fox Film was increased from 900,000 to 4,900,000 shares, but the consolidation never took place. Last summer Mr. Fox, injured in an automobile accident (TIME, July 29), was away from his office for almost two months. When he recovered he scarcely had time to start his plan with an attempt to distribute Fox...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Fox Abdication | 12/16/1929 | See Source »

...motion picture companies stockmarket breaks do not mean diminished profits, for like tobacco companies they are "depression proof." But at this particular time the stockmarket decline brought severe trouble to Cineman Fox. During the recent period of expansion he had needed great sums of cash. These he had obtained by short-term loans upon the stock of acquired companies. With $91,000,000 of these notes falling due, with his collateral down, with conditions bad for refinancing, Cineman Fox for the first time needed assistance. Last week he summoned aid by appointing a trustee-triumvirate consisting of himself, a banker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Fox Abdication | 12/16/1929 | See Source »

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