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Word: priced (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...small, tasty shrimps of southeastern Alaska, the herring and shellfish industries are underdeveloped. Yukon mink bring the highest world prices, but could have production expanded 100 times without sinking the world price. Petroleum resources have not even been tapped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TERRITORIES: Defrosting | 8/28/1939 | See Source »

...businessmen made uneasy companions, Dean Russell hit upon a cause that he thought would wed them: democracy v. totalitarianism. He decided to ho!d at T. C. a great Congress on Education for Democracy. He and Mr. Aldrich went to Europe to invite bigwigs to their Congress, hired John Price Jones to publicize...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Russell's Congress | 8/28/1939 | See Source »

...Market? There were indications that Nazi deviltry was not wholly responsible for last week's bearish market. Stocks rarely go up when falling commodity prices reflect business unwillingness to bid for materials for future use. This unwillingness was already apparent by July 22 when the Department of Labor's wholesale price index fell sharply on its way to a new post-Depression low (74.8% of 1926), again in early August when both the Dow-Jones Index of future commodity prices and Moody's index of spot commodity prices slumped sharply...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATE OF BUSINESS: Out of Pattern | 8/28/1939 | See Source »

Next day, having failed to up the price of gasoline, Harry Sinclair turned to his May alternative: Sinclair-Prairie Oil Marketing Co., another Consolidated subsidiary, cut its posted buying price for crude oil 20? a barrel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PETROLEUM: Sinclair's Alternative | 8/21/1939 | See Source »

...reason for the gullibility of U. S. university graduates is that U. S. universities teach science atrociously. He proceeded to flay his fellow science teachers for trying to cram their dogmatic opinions down students' throats, giving them no notion of what Science has to do with the price of eggs. Most horrible example: A certain chemistry professor who admitted that he often sneaked into his laboratory after hours to rearrange his students' apparatus so that their experiments would be sure to come out right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Spinsters and Australia | 8/21/1939 | See Source »

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