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Word: lot (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...British Admiralty, the Lord Provost of Glasgow, even from the Lord Mayor of London himself, on Mansion House stationery. But most highly prized was one on the chaste paper of Lambeth Palace, a character from the Archbishop of York himself, a dignitary, says Long, who draws quite a lot of water in England...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Idle Hour | 9/19/1938 | See Source »

Campaigning for Congress as a New Jersey Republican, Madeleine Edison Sloane, daughter of Thomas A. Edison, explained her candid candidacy: "If I had the taxes that go for this relief I could give a lot of people jobs. . . . I've never had any political life, so I don't have to worry about political suicide if I speak my mind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Sep. 19, 1938 | 9/19/1938 | See Source »

...firm's long-range objective is to put through and then defend the Client's social legislation. Since they wrote a lot of it, it is natural that their fight for it is personally motivated, for even lawyers have emotions. Partner Cohen says: "If we have to become propagandists, we were driven to it." When Senator Tydings of Maryland or Senator George of Georgia snarls at "two little Wall Street lawyers who want the power to say who shall or shall not be Senators," they know well that their quarrel is not with Lawyers Corcoran & Cohen but with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Janizariat | 9/12/1938 | See Source »

...sinking fund of 10% of its monthly gross sales. With this sinking fund the company's trustee each month must buy debenture shares in the open market at any price up to $26.25. If debenture shares cannot be bought thus, the trustee must then call them by lot at $26.25. In short, when business is good, Sunray can easily retire its obligation; in bad times there will be no heavy maturity to upset the oil cart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Contractual Obligation | 9/12/1938 | See Source »

...first of the 100,000,000 tulip, gladioli, iris, hyacinth, crocus and daffodil bulbs worth some $5,000,000 which the Dutch annually export to the U. S. This week the cordial trade relations between The Netherlands and the U. S. blossomed with the announcement that a vacant lot in Manhattan's Radio City will soon sprout a Netherlands Building...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Clearing House | 9/12/1938 | See Source »

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