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Word: ifs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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"We are in a position to be War Baby No. 1, as in the last war, but I can tell you that our directors and our associates don't want that kind of business. I'd like to see the war stop today. Bethlehem would be better off...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANUFACTURING: Steelmaster's Opinion | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

Inner Ear. People whose hearing is impaired by middle-ear injury and people past 30 who are gradually growing hard of hearing, are not really deaf. Medicine can do little to strengthen their damaged or aging middle-ear structures, but if their cochleae are sound and healthy, they can hear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: How's That? | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

"If a child over three years old cannot hold his water, the child and the water should be examined." In most cases, the Lancet continued, the cause of bed-wetting is not physiological but psychological. "If the parent or guardian believes that (in Mr. Churchill's inspiring phrase) '...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Dry Nights | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

But August 1939, when total U. S. power production was up about 10% over August 1938, hydro production was down 8%, and steam plants had to plug into hydro's distribution outlets to stave off a power famine. August steam plant output jumped 21%. September told a similar story...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UTILITIES: Capacity Wanted | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

Three things now hold up new investment in utility plant: 1) many systems have poor capital structures and weak earnings records which make it hard for them to raise capital; 2) no one knows yet for sure when or if Government competition will end; 3) and nobody knows either what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UTILITIES: Capacity Wanted | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

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