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Word: port (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...washers may think of the oldtime question: Good morning, have you used Pear's Soap? Yet, though Lux, Lifebuoy and Pear's all are Lever Bros, soaps, they are not the Lever Bros. soap. Leading Lever Bros, product is Sunlight Soap. The main Lever works are at Port Sunlight on England's Mersey River. Almost unknown in the U. S. is Sunlight, largest selling soap in the world. Not much better known was the late William Hesketh Lever, Lord Leverhulme (1851-1925). Yet he had an excellent claim to the title of World's Greatest Merchant and was certainly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Lever Bros. | 9/16/1929 | See Source »

Service Stations. The Aeronautical Chamber of Commerce at Cleveland last week instituted research on airport gas, oil and parts service stations. Standard Oil Companies of New Jersey, Indiana and California have organized a Stanavo agency to sell aviation gas and oil at ports. Richfield Oil Co. has built 16 of 35 proposed port stations. Texas Co. is stringing its depots along air routes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Los Angeles to Lakehurst | 9/9/1929 | See Source »

...Japanese troops were rushed from Port Arthur up the Japanese-owned South Manchuria Railway to strategic positions in central Manchuria where Japanese colonists have extensive vested interests...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA-CHINA: Blucher v. Chiang | 9/2/1929 | See Source »

...General Manager of the British-owned Mexicano Railway?a $50,000,000 line connecting Mexico City with the major port of Vera Cruz?is close-mouthed J. D. W. Holmes. Last week he said: "We shall not have to wait long to see the complete bankruptcy of this line if the projected labor law is enacted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Tyranny v. Tyranny | 9/2/1929 | See Source »

...Port Arthur. Tex., proscribes gyrations not approved by the National Association of Dancing Masters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Dance Halls Surveyed | 9/2/1929 | See Source »

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