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Word: pleasingness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Wages. When U. S. Steel cut its great 40% stock melon in 1927, Judge Gary drew up the Board in two long lines and jubilantly invited reporters in to see his potent directors "in the flesh." But at last week's meeting the directors, confronted with the poorest quarterly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Sorry Steel | 8/10/1931 | See Source »

Some may consider it would be more desirable for the Baltimore & Ohio to have a rail entrance into New York City. In lieu of this disability, the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, at great expense has provided excellent station facilities in New York and by an automobile coach service transports its patrons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 27, 1931 | 7/27/1931 | See Source »

A plump, liquid-eyed tenor is Giacomo Lauri-Volpi, who earns fat contracts by hurling lusty high C's at the boxes in William Tell, caroling lushly in operatic staples like La Traviata and Rigoletto. He has been paid well by the Metropolitan Opera. But he says that the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Star Crushed | 7/27/1931 | See Source »

No great Wall Street novel is Customers' Man by Boyden Sparkes, published last week by Frederick A. Stokes Co. ($1.50). But in swift-moving, unadorned narrative style it sets forth a good portrait of a Customers' Man of the Coolidge era. Before publication, the Board of Governors of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Customers' Man | 5/25/1931 | See Source »

In Chicago. The Detroit Free Press was already 50 years old when, in a four story building in Chicago's Washington Street, James W. Scott and William D. Eaton founded the Chicago Herald. But the Hearst Herald & Examiner celebrated its Golden Anniversary last week with ten times the Free Press...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Birthdays | 5/18/1931 | See Source »

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