Word: obtaining
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...would be wrong to lure and coax Indian representatives to the round table conference over here with vague phrases about Dominion status when it is quite certain that these Indian politicians will not obtain Dominion status in their life-times...
...fruit of eight years experiment, has unique features: briquets that do not crumble; a product free from clinkers with only one-half anthracite's ash, one-quarter its moisture; a high yield of gas and tar. Gas is salable, tar less so. Former projects have suffered through inability to obtain a balanced market for these byproducts. Prestcoke's prospects are brightest west of the Alleghenies, where freight charges handicap anthracite fatally. Even there it will meet bitter competition from fast-burning coke, gas, oil, and the new automatic stokers, which employ small sizes of bituminous coal with promising results...
...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...
Although C. I. T. is not as large as General Motors Acceptance Co., its gross is greater than any independent company's. To obtain this it is led into many fields. Thus at one time its files contained contracts on the printing equipment of 25 metropolitan newspapers, four Great Lakes steamers, plus the usual amount of soda fountains, scows, refrigerators, machinery. At present retail domestic automobile notes form the largest single item (29.54%) among C. I. T.'s receivables. Last December, however, this business formed 36.71% of the whole. The reduction did not occur because of any question...
...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...