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Word: ifs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Unable to pull his top-heavy Fair out of the red this year, Grover Whalen is faced with the problem of running it a second year. But there he will tangle with the League of Nations. In 1928, under the League's friendly wing, 22 foreign nations formed the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Figures v. Dreams | 8/21/1939 | See Source »

Whether the 22 foreign nations who put up their own pavilions* will return next year (if Whalen can raise the money) remains to be seen. At present they are angry because: 1) they have spent $55,000,000 to date; 2) they have exceeded their budgets; 3) overtime payments to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Figures v. Dreams | 8/21/1939 | See Source »

If Fair attendance picks up, a few of the showmen may yet make out, but already two major enterprises have folded, the $300,000 Cuban Village and the Savoy blackface show. Broadway's shop talk, an amalgam of arithmetic and intuition, last week held: 1) that unless Fair attendance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Eleanor's Show | 8/21/1939 | See Source »

Firmest rule of network broadcasting is "no recordings." Reasons given: 1) when NBC set the style 13 years ago, recordings ("platters") were pretty scratchy; 2) the radio audience likes programs better fresh than canned. Many a recording man retorts that if recorded Jack Bennys, Charlie McCarthys and other big-name...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Platters for the Pacific | 8/21/1939 | See Source »

If I loved you, would it be a silly thing to do?

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Milestones: Aug. 21, 1939 | 8/21/1939 | See Source »

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