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Word: mcdonald (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Free Press. Grocer McDonald, son of a Knoxville groceryman, built up a chain of 60 stores in Chattanooga. He bought a dairy to supply his stores with milk, a bakery to bake his bread, a laundry, a tire and gasoline company. He saw no use in paying good money to advertise in the papers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Chattanooga's Milton | 4/8/1940 | See Source »

...Grocer McDonald started giving away a little weekly sheet of his own, the Free Press. Other stores around Chattanooga began to advertise in the Free Press, and McDonald brought it out twice a week. About that time Publisher Milton's News was in the midst of a hot fight against Tennessee Electric Power Co. (subsidiary of Wendell Willkie's mammoth Commonwealth & Southern) in behalf of a municipal power system...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Chattanooga's Milton | 4/8/1940 | See Source »

...both bodies from earth varies slightly, and the size of their apparent disks varies accordingly. April's annular eclipse begins in the Pacific, crosses the southern U.S. -darkening Austin, Houston, Baton Rouge, New Orleans, Pensacola, Tallahassee, Savannah, Jacksonville-and ends in the Atlantic (see chart}. Texas' McDonald Observatory, which is 50 miles from the shadow path, will send a party into the path near the Mexican border to study infra-red radiation from the bright ring around the moon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Eclipses of 1940 | 4/1/1940 | See Source »

Mozart: Requiem Mass, K. 626 (University of Pennsylvania Choral Society with the Philadelphia Orchestra, Harl McDonald conducting; Victor: 12 sides). In 1791, as 35-year-old Mozart neared death in Vienna, a mysterious stranger offered him 50 ducats ($112.50) to write a Requiem. The stranger was an agent of one Count Franz von Walsegg, who wanted to pass the composition off as his own. Ill, impoverished Mozart accepted the commission, asked no questions, wrote his Requiem as if for himself. Death took him before the end; his pupils finished the manuscript. His last work, it is also...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: April Records | 4/1/1940 | See Source »

...BILL McDonald will center McGILL's starting line with Captain Cam Dickison and Dan Doheny at wings. Ken Brands and Tim Dunn team on defense with Walter Johnson in goal Gorden young. Rowie Walker and Grant Merrison form the alternate of trio...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HOCKEY TEAM READY FOR McGILL CONTEST | 1/5/1940 | See Source »

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