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Word: putted (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fortnight ago the Bank of England asked London commercial banks to put the brakes on the flow of English gold to the U. S. by not facilitating speculations in U. S. securities. Last week this caused substantial British liquidation of U. S. stocks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATE OF BUSINESS: Pause or Lull | 2/6/1939 | See Source »

Specializing in quality work, Pilgrim prospered. By 1913 Partners Dann and Bancker could afford a new $1,000,000 plant, as light and airy as any in the country. They set up recreation facilities, a vacation clubhouse, took to calling employes Pilgrims, put a name plate at every worker's post. In 1921 they began letting all employes buy stock. By 1937 employes owned over 50%. Mr. Bancker having died the year before, they were also offered his 25%, leaving Mr. Dann only 25%. The price of the company's shares once...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SERVICES: Pilgrims' Progress | 2/6/1939 | See Source »

...This is low-grade ore, expensive to smelt. But open-pit mining is much cheaper than shaft mining and-more important to smart President Stanley and International's 90,000 stockholders-combination of the two methods will assure an average grade of ore for many a year, will put off the day when even Frood's vast deposits give...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MINING: Future Assured | 2/6/1939 | See Source »

...Comic Bob Hawks. Sample: "Could a baseball game end in a 6-6 tie without a man touching first base?" Answer: "Yes, if the game was played between two girl teams." The sense part is a weekly question of public importance, debated earnestly before the microphone and then put before radio listeners at large...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Voice of the People | 2/6/1939 | See Source »

Further information came yesterday, but not much of it. It came in the form of a cautiously worded letter written on plain stationery with the letterhead ripped off from New Windsor, Maryland. The upshot was that if Sher wanted any more dope, he would just have to put up $50,000 of the $250,000 purchase price...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sophomore in Deal to Purchase Coed College in Maryland; Needs $250,000 | 2/6/1939 | See Source »

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