Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stock. K-F had suffered another blow. It had tied up a good chunk of its ready cash in stock. With all the hue & cry over the stock, chances looked slim that K-F would soon be able to find new buyers at the same price to help it raise the $10,000,000 in new capital it badly wanted for expansion...
Ferguson Lands. Harry Ferguson, Inc., which lost its old tractor-making partner, the Ford Motor Co. (TIME, July 21), imported the first 200 tractors from its new supplier, Standard Motor Co. Ltd., of Coventry, England. Standard, which is shipping 100 tractors a day, hopes they will help U.S. sales of its new 72-h.p. automobile (price: "less than $2,000"). The tractors and cars will have many interchangeable parts...
Instead of getting the bonuses, the townspeople took up a collection of $1,000 to help Lew Reese. Then they went out and helped him clean up the blackened wreckage of the plant. Even Jay Spiker, the town banker, joined in. Said Reese hopefully: "We'll be turning out cups and saucers here in two months' time...
This test is to help TIME readers and their friends check their knowledge of current affairs. In recording answers, make no marks at all opposite questions. Use one of the answer sheets printed with the test: sheets for four persons are provided. After taking the test, check your replies against the correct answers printed on the last page of the test, entering the number of right answers as your score on the answer sheet...
...billion worth of French, Italian, and British products to help out these nations' economies...