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Word: sales (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...walls every few paces, slopping paste on the walls, spreading out four posters which spelled one word: WAR. One ordered general mobilization (all able-bodied men between 21 and 40), another the prompt delivery of all motor vehicles, bicycles and horses to the State, a third prohibited the sale of alcoholic drinks. The fourth, picturing marching men, guns, tanks, planes and the handsome profile of Poland's Commander-in-Chief Marshal Edward Smigly-Rydz, declared: "Force must be met with force...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLAND: National Glue | 9/11/1939 | See Source »

Chile, in the midst of Navy war games, declared it would be strictly neutral in the sale of its murderous nitrates and essential copper. Chile was far and away the biggest South American exporter during World...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LATIN AMERICA: Death for Sale | 9/11/1939 | See Source »

...original cost of this car was just imder $100,000. Will sell for one-third of this sum if quick sale can be made...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Aug. 28, 1939 | 8/28/1939 | See Source »

...with the honors of war. He marched off with $78,425,095 in payment for Commonwealth & Southern's subsidiary, Tennessee Electric Power Co.-a pretty good price considering that T.E.P. was threatened with slow strangulation by the competition of Government-subsidized Tennessee Valley Authority power. Out of the sale price holders of T.E.P. bonds and preferred stock were paid off at par, about $8,000,000 was left for C. & S., owner of all but a few shares of the common...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UTILITIES: Appomattox Court House | 8/28/1939 | See Source »

...sold to United Aircraft and Transport Corp. within a year after he bought it) and another with Viking Aircraft, which had a not-so-happy ending in the 1929 crash, he had plenty of ambition but little money in his pocket when he learned that Lockheed was for sale...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Net & Gross | 8/28/1939 | See Source »

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