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Word: losses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Budapest, surgeons operated on Printer's Apprentice Gyoergyi Szabo, 17, who, brooding over the loss of a sweetheart, had set up her name in type, swallowed the type...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Inventions | 12/28/1936 | See Source »

...time MOP got the properties. The sale was subject to ICC approval, yet some $16,000,000 worth of the contracts were so drawn that the seller could not lose. If the ICC denied MOP permission to make the acquisition, that railroad had to make good any loss suffered by the seller, Terminal Shares, in disposing of the properties elsewhere...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Ball & Chain | 12/28/1936 | See Source »

...active ICCommissioner after a turn as Railroad Coordinator. Mr. Eastman used the intricate chain of terminal transactions to make the point that public regulation was defeated in that the ICC could, if it saw fit, forbid MOP to buy the properties, but it could not save MOP from loss...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Ball & Chain | 12/28/1936 | See Source »

...cigarets a day. Such a person, wishing to cut out smoking, may try nerve sedatives, hard candy, astringent lozenges, gumchewing, but still his task is hard. "After a man has lit a cigar, cigaret or pipe after every meal for many years he will at first be at a loss what to do with his hands at such times. Likewise the confirmed cigaret smoker wants a cigaret between fingers or lips when under any tension...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Indian Tobacco v. Tobacco | 12/21/1936 | See Source »

...public it meant only one thing: higher prices. In Illinois last week face powder formerly selling as low as 63? could not be legally retailed below $1.10. Even Major Benjamin H. Namm, head of Brooklyn's big Namm department store and a loud advocate of anti-loss-leader legislation, cried in alarm: "Price-fixing as a cure for predatory price-cutting is far worse than the disease itself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Pep Boys v. Fair Trade | 12/21/1936 | See Source »

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