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Word: letting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...eliminated as a reproductive factor. Of course your article [reporting how Dr. Gregory Goodwin Pincus fertilized a rabbit ovum without the help of a male rabbit and brought the offspring successfully to birth] stated: "This work will in no way affect the manner of living or customs," but just let some women get their hands on his formula and develop it further and in another hundred years or so, men will be absent from this earth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 4, 1939 | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

...Let us compare the facts in the case: in the protected waters of Alaska and British Columbia there are mountains of high grade iron ore and limestone, two of the essentials for making iron or steel, where the material can be quarried and placed on belts that take it directly to the vessel and then the limestone and iron ore can be taken by water to any point on Puget Sound, and at all times in protected water. Compare this with the conditions in Minnesota, for example, where they have to mine the ore, then take it by rail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 4, 1939 | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

Last week came time for the annual first act. But Playwright Roosevelt added a curtain-raiser to Act I, in which he himself appeared in a new role-that of a penny-squeezing pinchfist. Scrimper Roosevelt let it be known he was wearing blue pencils to the stub, slashing $1,000,000,000 of proposed expenditures from the budget he will present in January...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: New Twist | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

...Still one of the most imposing landmarks in U. S. labor history is the Norris-LaGuardia Anti-Injunction Act, which improved the legal status of unionism, drastically checked the granting of injunctions against unions in Federal courts (average before it was passed: 100 a year). Last month Senator Norris let it be known: "I have worked with and for labor for 30 years and I am disgusted with the situation now. . . . There is something wrong with the leadership or they would get together...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: The Big Split | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

...great devotion but not with great success, he did what he could: he collected $2,300 for Reich relief, had a Golden Book signed by 6,000 loyal U. S. Nazis, and carried the book to Hitler. Mein Führer received the gifts and-what was more-let Fritz Kuhn be photographed with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: Trouble | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

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