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Word: longing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...long after Fisk Rubber Co. was pulled through the receivership wringer in 1933, the House Select Committee on Investigation of Real Estate Bondholders' Reorganizations roundly spanked the firm's reorganizers (most of whom were bankers who had financed Fisk) for sacrificing the bondholders to suit their own fiscal interests. The old company was sold for $3,030,000 to a new corporation which wrote it up to $13,000,000, but new Fisk Rubber Corp. was clean in one respect: it had no bonded debt. And it prospered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANUFACTURING: Fisk to U. S. | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

Through the night the long windows of Pratt & Whitney's aircraft engine plant glow with an eerie, blue-green light. Through the streets of East Hartford, Conn., freight cars lumber along old trolley tracks from the plant to the New Haven Railroad. The air of the whole neighborhood palpitates with the muffled thunder of Wasps and Hornets on test stands in the research buildings. And every six seconds the white finger of the airport beacon flicks over the fleshening skeleton of a huge new factory extension growing from the main plant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Silver Platter | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

...freight traffic, and pipelines took a flood of oil (1938's total: 1,158,000,000 bbls.) that railroads would have liked to have in their tank cars. At the same time automobiles and motorbuses cut passenger traffic particularly on short runs, and finally airplanes arrived to cut long distance Pullman travel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CARRIERS: When If Ever a Profit? | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

...PALE HORSE, PALE RIDER (three long stories)-Katherine Anne Porter-Harcourt, Brace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Books of the Year | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

...Personal testimony and advice from men of recognized standing, who have been long concerned with these problems, is worth more to our ministers-to-be than formal academic courses, since a purely secular account of the facts does not satisfy the requirements of an ethical religion, even though it provides the subject matter for ethical interpretation." Dean Sperry said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Divinity Students Receiving More 'Clinical' Training, Dean Sperry Says | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

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