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Word: pile (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mile blow and the barometer has dropped out of sight. Hatch covers are sucked off like corks out of a bottle. The funnel is gone, the boilers flooded; there is no food, no water, no light. The Chinese crew is huddled in a corner like a half-dead pile of fish. The officers, although still on their feet, are as helpless as the Chinese, give off just as sharp an odor of ammonia-the smell of fear. Only two of them are actually reduced to green-faced semiconsciousness but by the end of the third day all of them have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Trick Hurricane | 10/10/1938 | See Source »

...impression which David Lasser would like to erase is that the Alliance wants to perpetuate Relief. He and his board declared: "Those whom we represent do not desire to help pile up Government deficits: do not desire to remain on the Government payroll one day longer than necessary. . . . We . . . understand that a works program and relief alone cannot solve our economic problems or end unemployment and insecurity. Such Government aid can but mitigate the suffering...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Bread & Progress | 10/3/1938 | See Source »

...being whipped out into Long Island Sound. Dwight Long did his radio stint, then ventured to the WJZ audience an anxious SOS: ". . . All I own in the world is aboard the Idle Hour. . . ." Next day they found her, mistress of 35,000 miles of angry oceans, a splintery pile on Long Island's rocks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Panhandle Dream | 10/3/1938 | See Source »

Born of the boom and orphaned in 1929, network radio grew up lustily through the lean decade without ever having to go to a foundling home. In only one year, 1933, did it fail to pile up gross revenues to top all previous years. In 1934, gross incomes exceeded 1933's by 35.4%, 1932's by 9%. Radio's 1933 depression was not only brief, it was also noteworthy for being tardy, for other industries were near bottom as early as 1932. So network-sales experts have derived from that experience their characteristically optimistic axiom that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Money for Minutes | 9/19/1938 | See Source »

This last pile consisted of $520,510 in cash, $1,233,748 in miscellaneous notes, $2,000,000 in real estate, $8.264,004 in Government bonds, $24,489.398 in stocks. Mr. Mellon's holdings showed he had a taste for "blue chips." Among his assets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SECURITIES: Blue Chips | 9/12/1938 | See Source »

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