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Word: overlies (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Many another corporation was also worried over a cut in fourth-quarter earnings from the steel and coal strikes. Some had been hard hit already. Of 47 railroads reporting so far, only two (Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis, and the Bangor & Aroostook) showed a gain for the first nine months over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Full of Steam | 11/7/1949 | See Source »

Though she is moving into her new job at a time when textilemen are having rough going, she thinks the worst is over as far as Stroock's is concerned. Profits dropped 11% in its last fiscal year, but for this fall sales were 73% above last year - at...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: No Bottle Baby | 11/7/1949 | See Source »

Died. Herbert Wells Fay, 90, for 27 years custodian of Abraham Lincoln's tomb, known to scholars the world over for his extensive collection of Lincolniana (he had more than a million items); in Springfield, Ill.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Nov. 7, 1949 | 11/7/1949 | See Source »

It was a wonderful party. With an assist from some of the 14,000 bottles of wine and vodka Stalin had sent down to Yalta, F.D.R., Churchill and Uncle Joe were letting their hair down. They were further cheered because they had closed some pretty big deals. The next day...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Yalta Revisited | 11/7/1949 | See Source »

After reading Roosevelt and the Russians, many readers will still find it hard to condone the deal, made behind China's back, by which Russia got control of Manchurian ports and rail lines, and President Roosevelt agreed that he would see to it that China swallowed her cup of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Yalta Revisited | 11/7/1949 | See Source »

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