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Word: northerns (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Winter is king over most of northern New England this weekend, with winter sports devotees already trekking to the slopes and enjoying early skiing that serious unbelievably good after two snowless years...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Good Hill Skiing Through N. E.; No Base, But Trails Are Fair | 11/26/1938 | See Source »

Whittlesey doubted whether there were great mineral deposits outside of the rich area in Northern Rhodesia...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Professor Whittlesey Doubts African Plan for Refugees | 11/25/1938 | See Source »

...relevant factors" differences in living, production and transportation costs-the elements of the South's cherished wage differentials. Having done so, he may not establish any differential "solely on a regional basis." He will be damned if he does, damned if he doesn't by high-wage Northern or low-wage Southern Congressmen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: No Cats | 11/21/1938 | See Source »

This week Weco Products Co. (Dr. West's) marketed the first toothbrush with synthetic bristles replacing the standard hog bristles imported from northern China. These new synthetic bristles are actually coarse strands of Fibre 66, and Weco claims they absorb only 20% as much moisture and dry much more quickly than the natural variety. Developed by the late Du Pont Chemist W. H. Carothers, Fibre 66 in bristle form is called "Exton," is made by forcing through small openings a synthetic resin known as "nylon," thus producing filaments in much the same way that rayon is manufactured. Because diameter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: New Synthetic | 10/31/1938 | See Source »

...like to talk about Confederate naval policy. It scarcely helped the South, did not greatly injure the North in a military sense. But it ruined the U. S. merchant marine. Rebel raiders and privateers sank or destroyed 200 ships worth $30,000,000. Since merchants would not ship in Northern vessels for fear of raiders, almost the entire fleet, totaling 6,000,000 tons, was sold to English interests for the bargain price of $42,000,000, leaving the U. S. at the end of the Civil War with only 1,000,000 tons, largely obsolete...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Rebel Raider | 10/31/1938 | See Source »

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