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Word: liquidating (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...York Herald Tribune: "Owing to the inexcusable conditions obtaining at present with respect to the finances of certain mushroom companies the impression is being created in some uninformed quarters that there has been a total breakdown in corporate business acumen. This is far from being the case, as the liquid cash position of the premier American corporations and their continued willingness and ability to discharge their duty to stockholders and creditors indicates...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Troubles | 6/6/1932 | See Source »

...unnecessary," said the Work Banker, "to emphasize the havoc wrought by this vast movement of liquid funds . . . which was increased rather than reduced by the warning implied in Mr. Hoover's proposal ... or to dwell upon the stagnation resulting from the magnitude of the sums immobilized. They nave contributed each their part to the persistent fall of prices and they have accentuated the deflationary forces which are oppressing world economy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Big Biz | 5/23/1932 | See Source »

Martini & Rossi's vermouth advertisement clearly states: "non-alcoholic." What people put into a legal liquid-be it orange juice, ginger ale, milk, water or vermouth -is none of TIME'S business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 9, 1932 | 5/9/1932 | See Source »

...handsome home three years ago. And now the grave News had received and that day had dedicated a new plant of its own. Point was added to President Angell's fun by the fact that the Record, to support its building, was reported to be vending oysters and liquid refreshment. And the News, though Its new home was an outright gift, had instantly announced it needed an endowment fund for upkeep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: O. C. D. Housed | 5/9/1932 | See Source »

Mysterious mercury, the only metal liquid at ordinary temperatures, was the basis for the alchemical transmutation of the elements. With retorts, alembics, beakers, pots, furnaces and incantations. Greek. Latin and Arabic experimenters sought first to purge quicksilver of Aristotle's four pristine elements. Mercury cleansed of earth, fire, air and water might then be changed to precious gold and silver. The rush for mercury in Arkansas last week was paralleled by a rush into Canada's Great Bear Lake region for radium, the modern transmuter's lodestone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Quicksilver Rush | 5/2/1932 | See Source »

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