Word: obtaining
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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They had bootlegged meat, fowl, milk, cheese, potatoes, eggs. To obtain these edibles they had forged government food cards wholesale. Guilty of "private trading," they had incurred what Soviet citizens call "the highest measure of social defense": execution...
Until last week if J. O. Villeneuve of Manhattan wanted to buy 1,000 shares of Dix Butte Mining Co. he would have to ask an over-the-counter house to search for a seller, or else arrange to obtain the stock on the San Francisco Mining Exchange. But last week when Mr. Villeneuve decided he wanted 1,000 Dix Butte he did none of these things. He simply went to the New York Mining Exchange of which he is a member, bought the 1,000 shares from Benjamin M. Berger, fellow member, for 40? a share...
...through the biggest single air transport project any company has ever undertaken, be passed off without proper understanding. The factors behind the Pan American system are important and should be truthfully portrayed in the interests of the greater Pan American Airways system which, if air transportation is destined to obtain a fraction of the importance we attribute to it, will be one of the most important influences in the future of the new world...
...books are news. Unless otherwise designated, all books reviewed in TIME were published within the fortnight. TIME readers may obtain any book of any U. S. publisher by sending check or money-order to cover regular retail price ($5 if price is unknown, change to be remitted) to Ben Boswell of TIME, 205 East 42nd St., New York City...
...books are news. Unless otherwise designated, all books reviewed in TIME were published within the fortnight. TIME readers may obtain any book of any U. S. publisher by sending check or money-order to cover regular retail price ($5 if price is unknown, change to be remitted) to Ben Boswell of TIME, 205 East 42nd St., New York City...