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Word: ifs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Today Government spending exceeds Government revenues by about $1,000,000,000 a quarter. By next spring the Government's deficit spending will probably be down to $600,000,000 a quarter. New Dealers, certain of a slump, were last week in a mood to let events take their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE GOVERNMENT: New Experiment | 8/14/1939 | See Source »

If they take this alternative, they can:

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE GOVERNMENT: New Experiment | 8/14/1939 | See Source »

In the Revenue Act of 1938 Congress put a prohibitive excise tax of 3? a pound on whale oil produced with the aid of foreign killer ships. This does not benefit U. S. harpooners because there are none but it suits U. S. farm and fish lobbies, because whale oil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FISHERIES: Tax | 8/14/1939 | See Source »

With religious and racial persecutions 10? a dozen in Europe, many people forget that in Mexico there has long been, if not a persecution, a very cramping restriction of Roman Catholics. Priests are forbidden by law to wear clerical garb outside their houses and their churches, and the cassock has...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Prelates in Mufti | 8/14/1939 | See Source »

If a hurricane blew everybody off Cape Cod, it could be repopulated overnight by the fictional offspring of Joseph Crosby Lincoln. Last week Author Lincoln, collaborating with his nonfictional offspring Freeman, proved that not even a hurricane can stop him from writing about Cape Cod, used the big blow of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Down East | 8/14/1939 | See Source »

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