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Word: sheetings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Broker Edward Parry Sykes, 43, appointed specialist in the stock two days before, arrived late at work that morning. Maybe that contributed to his hard luck. There were no bids and no offers. So he made some quick calculations about what price to quote. Considering Spalding's balance sheet and the price of the old preferred, he decided to quote 30 bid, 33 offered (ten shares each...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MARKETS: Improper Indignity | 7/17/1939 | See Source »

...Steel prices wobbled as all companies cut sheet prices $8 per ton to the low reached in the brief price war two months ago. Steel estimated that the price cuts would cost the industry somewhere between $13,200,000 and $50,000,000, reported that one typical producer (on 50% operation) was losing $12.50 on every ton of sheets he turned out to sell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATE OF BUSINESS: December Forecast | 7/10/1939 | See Source »

When Walt Mason was 48 he had good reason to fear his fate. Small-town newsman with roving feet, he had drunk his way through many a sheet when he went to William Allen White, swore to work hard, not get tight. Pressing grindstone to his nose, he wrote a batch of rhyming prose. Walt Mason's doggerel, couched in slang, hit the syndicates with a bang; rich, respected, worth his salt grew reformed Booze-hoister Walt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Milestone: Jul. 3, 1939 | 7/3/1939 | See Source »

Roosevelt is the correct answer. Since the number of this question is 0, the number 2 - standing for Roosevelt - has been placed at the right of 0 on the answer sheet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Current Affairs Test, Jun. 26, 1939 | 6/26/1939 | See Source »

Directions: The following statements identify scenes of important recent developments affecting the map of Europe. On the answer sheet, opposite the number of each statement be low, write the number on the map which correctly locates the place or territory described...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Current Affairs Test, Jun. 26, 1939 | 6/26/1939 | See Source »

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