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Word: smallest (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Swift Lathers, whose Mears, Mich., Newz is the smallest (four pages, 5¼ by 7¼ inches) and oddest newspaper in the United States. A poet and mystic who spends his summers in a tent and many of his nights pacing the dunes of Lake Michi gan, Editor Lathers makes a precarious living for his wife and three children (Thelma, Billo and Forest Glenn Lathers) by publishing such fascinating bits as the following: "Miss Cornelia Vander Zander is crocheting an oval rag rug to put her bare feet on these cold mornings when she steps out of bed. . . . Hooray, hooray...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Grass Roots Press | 2/20/1939 | See Source »

...YORK--The stock market closed irregular today but on a note of firmness which featured a dull season in which only 440,000 shares were turned over, the smallest since Sept...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Over the Wire | 2/11/1939 | See Source »

...From the smallest speak in "Dirty Mary...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Contributions | 2/9/1939 | See Source »

Annually for the past five years Charles Babb has sold between $500,000 and $1,000,000 worth of airplanes and airplane equipment, largely to clients in Alaska, Mexico, Central and South America. His smallest sale was his first, a $700 reconditioned and guaranteed Eaglerock three-seater. His largest: $400,000 worth of assorted ships for export to France in 1936, intended, he guesses, for Loyalist Spain. As sidelines he rents ships to Hollywood cinema studios, runs a skywriting business, operates the Ryan and Stinson agencies for Central and South America...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Flying Freight Car | 1/9/1939 | See Source »

American Bantam, smallest of the streamlined lot (120 in. over all), comes in a standard coupé at $399, a station wagon no bigger than a doghouse at $565, and nine intermediate models...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Four-Wheel Debutantes | 11/14/1938 | See Source »

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