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Word: petted (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...after Huey Long blustered thus last week, not a big Louisiana bank but the $32,000,000 Union Indemnity group of insurance companies tumbled into receivership-biggest crash in New Orleans for nearly 50 years. They were Huey Long's pet companies. Since his ascendency he has seen to it that Union Indemnity got all state departmental insurance, that it bonded all state employes, all bridge and highway contractors. Most of the group's insurance and bonds were immediately taken over last week by the Aetna group of Hartford, including the $50,000 bonds of Colonel Luke...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Trouble in New Orleans | 1/16/1933 | See Source »

Ever since Mr. Kettering moved into his present home he has delighted in filling it with gadgets to make life easier: buttons to open and close windows, eleven Frig-idaires, a cooling system. This became his pet hobby. Had it no Charles Franklin Kettering, GM would probably not be entering the air conditioning field now. He feels many of the developments in the temperate zone have been due to temperature-control in winter and is excited at the thought of what temperature-control in summer may bring about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: All Change! | 1/9/1933 | See Source »

...BRIGHT LAND-Janet Ayer Fair-bank-H ought on Mifflin ($2.50). Call me pet names, dearest! Call...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Centenary Chronicle | 1/2/1933 | See Source »

word. Call me pet names, dearest! Call...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Centenary Chronicle | 1/2/1933 | See Source »

...Kentucky Home's 29% interest in a five-year voting trust which has sufficient other shares to represent control of Missouri State. The voting trust consists of Mr. Barnes, now chairman of the company, William Thompson Nardin, president of the company and of $13,000,000-in-assets Pet Milk Co., and Tom K. Smith, president of St. Louis' Boatmen's National Bank...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Insurance Week | 12/19/1932 | See Source »

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