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Word: quickest (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Song and Tobaccoman William N. Reynolds' Schnapps just behind. Twilight Song broke her gait at the first turn. By the time E. Roland Harriman's Farr had taken the lead in the back stretch, the crowd of 35,000 was on its feet, cheering one of the quickest-stepping fields ever seen in a Hambletonian. Then one horse began to pull away from the ruck. It was not, as many hoped, favorite DeSota. It was the Hanover Shoe Farms' bay filly Shirley Hanover, priced at 10-to-1, and she flashed away from the field...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Hanover Hambletonian | 8/23/1937 | See Source »

...take up the testing of the new route, which thorough Pan American will probably fly for at least six months before beginning scheduled four-day service to the fourth best U. S. customer. New Zealand-Australia trade with the U. S. now amounts to $10,000,000 a month. Quickest steamship passage is 19 days...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Pan American Down Under | 4/5/1937 | See Source »

When efficient Dr. McGraw agreed to marry Mr. Mallina she commanded his attorney, Max Delson, to discover the quickest kind of ceremony. Lawyer Delson tracked down in the Domestic Relations Law a provision for contract marriage, which formerly could be under taken before a notary public but now requires the presence of a judge of a court of record. Mr. Delson could find only two prior instances of contract marriages, one for a Mr. Kelso and a Miss Bryant in 1917, the other for a man named Wickholm and his bride...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Contract Marriage | 12/28/1936 | See Source »

...expected, the capital imported in the form of security investments was exceeded by that in short-term banking funds ($1,353,000,000). This is the hottest type of hot money because it can be withdrawn the quickest. Though the Treasury was careful to point out that its figures were not necessarily complete, it set the total flow of capital to the U. S. in the period studied at $2,281,000,000. That amounted to nearly a 50% increase in the amount of foreign money invested in the U. S. at the start of 1935. Present total of foreign...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Hot Money (Cont'd) | 12/7/1936 | See Source »

...Lifeline of Empire; 2) establishment on a basis for quick conversion into combative use of British commercial air liners constantly winging up and down both the East and West coasts of Africa; 3) erection of munitions plants and factories for building motorized war equipment in South Africa for quickest use wherever it would serve the Empire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: New British Strategy | 6/29/1936 | See Source »

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