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Word: mans (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sirs: Sorry old man but you slipped up on Chrysler earnings. See p. 54 of TIME, August 28. If Chrysler paid $8 per share, their quarterly dividend should be at least $2. It seems that I have lost money on that basis. I have only received $1, $1.50, $1.50 for the last three dividends on Chrysler stock. Maybe these weren't quarterly dividends but I think so. Even so it's a damn fine corporation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 18, 1939 | 9/18/1939 | See Source »

...That enormous fact shaped the stratagems of statesmen and soldiers in Europe (see p. 15). It changed the shape of Government in Washington (see p. 11). It stirred and troubled The People, by whose consent alone the U. S. can go all the way to war. Upon no one man but upon all, its awful burden lay. To the man who more than any other can guide the U. S. toward or away from war, it was fascinating and profoundly stimulating. Franklin Roosevelt, man of crises, went into action as one who enjoys...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Half Out | 9/18/1939 | See Source »

...Billings' Bridge, Ont., a man claiming to be a mind reader went to court complaining that his neighbors had been thinking terrible things about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Sep. 11, 1939 | 9/11/1939 | See Source »

...comics, Superman is rapidly becoming the No. 1 juvenile vogue in the U. S. A happy combination of Flash Gordon and Popeye the Sailor, Superman is an individual with the speed of an airplane, the strength of a locomotive, the leap of a cricket and the hide of a man of war. He was born on a distant planet called Krypton, whose inhabitants had a physical structure far more advanced than that of earth dwellers, but not enough perspicacity to keep their planet from blowing up like a grain of popcorn. In the debacle only the infant Superman escaped. Reared...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Superman | 9/11/1939 | See Source »

...Warsaw last week Associated Press Correspondent Lloyd Lehbras got one of those scoops that every reporter dreams of. While he was telephoning the A. P. man in Budapest, German planes appeared over Warsaw, and Correspondent Lehbras dictated an exciting eye-witness account of the raid, which the A. P. promptly relayed to the U. S. Excerpts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Censored War | 9/11/1939 | See Source »

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