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Word: ifs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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There were two reasons for this: 1) The warring nations were forced to get along with old clothes, to drink coffee substitutes, to cut down smoking. But they desperately needed food and war supplies. The relative demand for various goods had completely changed. 2) The costs of transportation changed just...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Background For War: The Neutrals | 8/14/1939 | See Source »

Not so are the goods-whether food or cannon-which are exported to belligerents. Experience of the last great war shows that they might as well be burned or dumped at sea, for little if any real wealth is ever received in payment for them. They are paid for only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Background For War: The Neutrals | 8/14/1939 | See Source »

When Stanley leaves, his newsbeat has been turned into a crusade, a war not on ignorant bushmen but on learned incredulity. M.G.M.'s wisdom in lending Actor Tracy for his part appears when he delivers, to the jeering Royal Society of Geographers, a four-minute speech that is not...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: African Trio | 8/14/1939 | See Source »

Thirty-six hours from starting point (twelve hours slower than the Clippers) the Caribou, after lighting to deliver part of her 1,000-lb. mail load in Botwood, Newfoundland and Montreal, glided into Port Washington, L. I. If her speed and payload had lagged behind the Clippers', Britain could...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Caribou | 8/14/1939 | See Source »

Stan Shaw is a skinny, jumpy, 31-year-old ex-teacher of psychology and ex-orchestra leader from Kansas City. He and his aides never hand records back & forth, they throw them. With a great play at keeping everything Grade A on the Milkman's Matinee, Assistant John Flora...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Milkman Stan | 8/14/1939 | See Source »

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