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Word: recording (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tough teams will tangle this afternoon when Adams meets Kirkland. The Gold Coasters have a record of one win and one loss, having beaten Eliot and lost to Dudley. The Deacons beat Leverett and tied Dunster, and are rated favorites...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BUNNIES BEAT GREEN DORMITORY TEAM, 19-0 | 10/17/1939 | See Source »

...from Pocahontas mines at the rate of 433,066 tons a week (current Pocahontas weekly production: 6-to-700,000 tons a week). Hampton Roadsters worked days, nights and Sundays loading ship holds and bunkers. Pennsylvania Railroad's Norfolk & Western Railway has been setting a new coal loading record daily. Mine owners have forgotten restriction agreements, are trying to get onto a six-day week. Chief obstacle: the labor supply, long unemployed and insecure, of Appalachian coal fields is now insufficient. Last week, for the first time since immigration days, mine owners were broadcasting daily appeals for miners...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATE OF BUSINESS: Boom | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

...rush stand some industries which have already passed the peak mark of sales, are declining. Typical is copper, which the Allies have passed by in favor of purchases from African, Chilean, and Canadian sources; Germany, in favor of Balkan metal. In September copper sales had set an all time record (183,627 tons). Copper sellers sagely guarded against White House strictures on profiteering by stabilizing the price at 12? a pound. They guarded against overproduction by rationing customers. By the beginning of October sales had gone as low as 4,000 tons a day from a September peak...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATE OF BUSINESS: Boom | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

...arrest him on the day he is to be married to Show Girl Gail (Arleen Whelan), force the plant to close. Tommy's father, mild-eyed, poker-faced Major Grayson ( Charles Grapewin), native as a corn shuck, sets out to prove him innocent. By such slightly off-the-record stunts as burglarizing the plane factory and carrying off Tommy's gauges to check, breaking into a neighbor's house and rifling his closet, the Major sleuths out a sabotage gang, finds most of them are just his sourer-faced neighbors. Whether they blow things up for Nazi...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Oct. 16, 1939 | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

Night of the Poor is the answer to that question. Like The Asiatics its only plot is a record of travel, but this time the traveler is a 17-year-old boy bumming his way south from Wisconsin to his home in Texas. Tom starts out with his friend Pete, a mindless blond giant with curly hair on his chest who almost immediately mag netizes a colored farm girl, troubles Tom's flesh by getting as far as taking down her dress before he remembers to send Tom away. This scene, equal parts Steinbeck and Pierre Louys, is followed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Plausible Echoes | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

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