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Word: smalling (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...neatly wrapped in parchment or cellophane, trimmed, ready to cook. Soon available will be sliced calf liver and beef liver, and packaged legs and shoulder of lamb. Eventually planned are frozen beef steaks, roasts, etc. Most extraordinary of all will be a forthcoming packaged lamb stew, consisting of small pieces of frozen lamb, ready for the stew-kettle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Billion Sales | 8/12/1929 | See Source »

...whose annual sales total one billion dollars, Swift & Co. will this year probably move, having done nearly a billion dollars a year for many a year. But big, energetic Louis F. Swift,* who works all day at a stand-up desk, gets as profits for his company only a small slice (less than 2%) of his gross...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Billion Sales | 8/12/1929 | See Source »

After the War he had $200. He borrowed $300 from his fiancee, $600 from friends of his father, $19,000 from Brooklyn bankers, started putting up small houses in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn suburb. His carpentering and plastering employes mostly came to work in their automobiles. Mr. Chanin arrived via bicycle. He sold his-$10,000 houses for $13,000; was off on the way to his "56 stories of sunlight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Unfreezing Assets* | 8/12/1929 | See Source »

Whether the sale was a movement toward including Procter & Gamble in Standard Brands, new Morgan food-products holding company (TIME, July 1 ), was debatable because of the small percentage of Morgan ownership. Yet soap, like yeast, is undeniably distributed in cakes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Morgan in Soap | 8/12/1929 | See Source »

...Almanac promises to rival Earl Carroll's Sketchbook (TIME, July 15) with seekers of chorus girls, guffaws and 4-4 time. Its writers include A. E. Thomas, playwright, Rube Goldberg and Ring W. Lardner, funnymen. It will serve to frame fat, raucous Trixie Friganza and Jimmy Savo, small comic. A modernized version of A Temperance Town, oldtime comedy by Charles Hoyt, will include incidental tunes. George M. Cohan will smilingly assume the stage as author and actor in Gambling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: August Forecast | 8/12/1929 | See Source »

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