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Word: overlies (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sirs: Friday evening I read TIME'S characterization, "aging, ailing Financier Bernard Mannes Baruch" [TIME, Aug. 21]. Saturday afternoon I met Mr. Baruch in the park of Saratoga Spa (where he has been for the past three weeks), gay over his physicians' discharge of him as completely cured...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 11, 1939 | 9/11/1939 | See Source »

But while the record manufacturers gloomed over their dwindling sales accounts, the engineers of Western Electric and the Bell Telephone Laboratories had been monkeying with electrical transcription and reproduction. By means of their new recording and amplifying gadgets the phonographic disc could, for the first time, catch a close approximation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Phonograph Boom | 9/4/1939 | See Source »

Even as a democrat, General Carpenter will have a wide command, for his 27,000 subordinate officers use 104 languages, work in 97 countries. Throughout the world the Army has an estimated 3,000,000 active members (240,000 in the U. S.), over $100,000,000 worth of property...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Democrat for Autocrat | 9/4/1939 | See Source »

The most explosive European crisis in 25 years last week scrawled a big question mark over the future of U. S. business:

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN TRADE: Come War, Come Peace | 9/4/1939 | See Source »

Meantime Pepsi-Cola had become the No. 2 cola drink of the U. S. (next to Coca-Cola). For the first six months of 1939 Pepsi-Cola had turned a net profit of $2,500,000, an increase of 76% over its booming 1938 figures. Last week President Mack ventured...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INVESTMENT TRUSTS: Cola Coup | 9/4/1939 | See Source »

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