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Word: rivalled (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Green's rival, John Lewis, has one book to his credit: Miners' Fight for American Standards, published...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Bannerless Man | 11/13/1939 | See Source »

...body of information available to British press or public on which any such charges as those of Richard Stokes could be made to stick in a court of law. But everyone was hearing stories of disgruntled contractors who complained of price rigging on Government contracts by successful rival contractors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Ipswich Gadfly | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

...Hedda Hopper, with this story up her sleeve, heard that a rival columnist was about to break it. On a Saturday night at nine o'clock, with three hours to make the deadline for the Times early-morning editions, she picked up a telephone and tried to get James Roosevelt at his home in Beverly Hills. Two hours later she was still ringing, had got no answer. So Hedda Hopper sat down and wrote her story...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Jimmy Gets It | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

...their last musicomedy as possible, have jumped all the way from Shakespeare and old Syracuse to college and New Mexico. Their scene is a rundown campus called Pottawatomie ("One of those colleges that play football on Fridays") and their plot a combination of Boy Meets Girl and Team Beats Rival...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Harts & Flowers | 10/30/1939 | See Source »

...menacing squeeze in raw materials. September pig iron production rose only 12% because blast furnaces for making pig iron are in worse shape than furnaces for smelting steel ingots. Quick to profit from the scarcity of pig (price $22.50) have been the railroads and other sellers of its rival raw material, scrap, who have put the price up to $26 a ton (Aug. 31 price: $15.25). At $26, sheet mills are buying bundles of scrapped sheets which they must re-roll to strict specifications to sell for only $7 to $8 more. Rail mills are buying scrap to go into...

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

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