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Word: glassfuls (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...president's big office are covered with religious paintings. A well-thumbed Bible is always on the desk. Behind it last week Mrs. Ruth Kerr, 55, a widow with 13 grandchildren, started her 25th year as head of Alexander H. Kerr & Co. and its subsidiary, Kerr Glass Mfg. Co. (which sells the home-canning jars the parent company makes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: The Lord Helps Those . . . | 2/21/1949 | See Source »

...because of what God has done." God has been a partner in the company since 1902, when debt-ridden Alexander Kerr, an obscure wholesale grocery man, took the tithing vow at Portland, Ore. Three months later, Kerr took a chance: he borrowed money to buy a patent on a glass vacuum jar that could be sealed at home. Kerr got a San Francisco glass works to supply his materials, and in four years had a profitable business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: The Lord Helps Those . . . | 2/21/1949 | See Source »

Television. Radio Corp. of America unveiled its long-expected 16-inch metal television tube (see cut). It is 18½ lbs. lighter than those made of glass and with mass production will eventually reduce the price of 16-inch television table model sets to "about $400" from the present price of $495. To meet the new competition, Corning Glass Works announced that the price of its 16-inch glass tubes, in mass production, would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATE OF BUSINESS: Facts & Figures, Feb. 7, 1949 | 2/7/1949 | See Source »

...when he was knighted, Conan Doyle had grown into a grandiose private and public figure. His household became enormous, as he hurled his money and energy into corps of servants, stained-glass heraldic windows, horses, racing-cars, motorcycles and miniature railroads. His children were so terrified of him that once when his little daughter was prattling innocently about "the fertility of rabbits" she noticed one of her father's blue eyes appear around the corner of his morning Times and fix her with a look so deadly that she nearly fell out of her chair. The War Office regarded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Prefabrication of Holmes | 2/7/1949 | See Source »

When anyone asks Coach Corry Wynn about his freshman squash team, Wynn's face brightens up like a picture window after a can of Glass Wax. The reason is quite clear...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lining Them Up | 2/7/1949 | See Source »

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