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Word: questioners (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...selection of routes, so that no traveling step need be retraced. Up to 8,500 miles may be traveled for one fare. Straight coach tickets for this mileage would cost $130. Exultantly cried one-man Washington lobby, New York State's ex-Senator John A. Hastings: "The sole question remaining is, why not Postal-ize fares 365 days a year to all points...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Fair Fare | 2/13/1939 | See Source »

...Next to questions about weather and health, the most often-asked news-question in the U. S. is "How's Business?" Ever since business has been called business, men have sought an inclusive answer to that question-and an answer exclusive of wishful (or fearful) opinion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: ANNOUNCEMENT | 2/13/1939 | See Source »

...measure of distribution, showing the quantity of goods being shipped; steel operations, a good measure of production, giving a clue to construction; crop prices, a good indicator of farmers' buying power. But on a 3,000-mile-broad continent these were and are only fragmentary answers to the question of "How's U. S. Business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: ANNOUNCEMENT | 2/13/1939 | See Source »

...Index of Industrial Production, a weighted monthly measure of the quantity of production in some 40 industries. By the time these data are collected and the index calculated, the information is several weeks out of date-and the F. R. B. index is at its best in answering the question, "How was business last month...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: ANNOUNCEMENT | 2/13/1939 | See Source »

Presently surrendering to U. S. authorities, genial Promoter Bob found juries no more of a problem than the speculators he had cajoled. No less than three juries split over the question of whether or not he had used the mails to defraud. The case was finally nol-prossed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SECURITIES: Gold Bricks | 2/13/1939 | See Source »

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