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Word: moneyed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bottoms. Returning from such" a vacation last year he scared the day lights out of most of Jewett with accounts of a mythical half-beast, half-man he had encountered. Sample Robinson "Town Note": "Some more mules and wagons in Jewett Saturday afternoon and not many cars, a little money floating around among such men as Profs. Travis Shepherd and J. A. Humphrey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Grass Roots Press | 2/20/1939 | See Source »

Soon learning there was no spot cash up that alley, the young inventor turned to more practical pursuits. To earn money for his first pair of long pants, he invented a thief-proof auto lock which netted him $25. At 19 he was working in a railroad yard. Then he landed a job in the fund-raising office of George Everson, a San Franciscan with brains and friends...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMUNICATIONS: Banker Backed | 2/20/1939 | See Source »

...heard his gangling new employe's television theory. He went to see two officers of San Francisco's Crocker First National Bank, Jesse B. McCargar and the late James J. Fagan. Crusty Banker Fagan remarked: "Well, that is a damn fool idea but someone ought to put money into it and someone that can afford to lose it." He and McCargar put up an initial $25,000. The year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMUNICATIONS: Banker Backed | 2/20/1939 | See Source »

...each of whose first 19 floors contains six acres of floor space, much of it vacant. He consolidated the manufacturing division's 24 mills, marked out a sweeping program for it. About all he did not alter appreciably was Marshall Field's retail division, which had lost money only once in 50 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRADE: Change of Policy | 2/20/1939 | See Source »

From gross income you may exclude alimony, damages collected for breach of promise, alienation of affections, libel or slander. You may deduct money spent to get a job, automobile expenses (including fines for negligent driving), the cost of dental work to replace teeth knocked out in pursuit of duty, money spent on unsuccessful inventions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Bugaboos Laid | 2/20/1939 | See Source »

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