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Word: sold (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Took half ($22,035,000) of her scrap iron sold last year and, in the first five 1939 months, $45,710,000 worth of oil and gasoline, copper and machinery, autos, trucks and parts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN TRADE: Economic War? | 8/7/1939 | See Source »

Then Owner Woodward selects half of the crop to be sold at Saratoga, keeps the other half for racing. From the racing group he chooses four to be sent to England, to become acclimatized to English weather and accustomed to English tracks ?under the guidance of the celebrated British trainer, Eton-bred Captain Cecil Boyd-Rochfort, at his famed Freemason Lodge at Newmarket. The rest of the crop is sent to Long Island, entrusted to the loving care of Trainer Fitzsimmons, ablest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Scarlet Spots | 8/7/1939 | See Source »

...radio receiving set manufacturers sold some 7,150,000 sets, with a retail value of $225,000,000. Last week, on the application of this highly competitive industry, the Federal Trade Commission promulgated its first set of fair-trade rules. Some unfair trade practices proscribed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Fair Trade | 8/7/1939 | See Source »

...stoop-shouldered, loose-jointed, slap-happy gaffer of 64, who has been selling the Light on the corner of Travis and North St. Mary's Streets for the past 17 years. Newsboy Heckman says he is an M.A. (for Master Accountant), has worked in eight banks and sold newspapers in New York, California, Mexico, South America and at the Paris Exposition of 1900. He wears an old straw hat and baggy breeches, drinks "sulfur water" out of a whiskey bottle he carries in his apron pocket. Newsboy Heckman makes his appearance running down the street yelling: "Light...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Old Timers | 8/7/1939 | See Source »

...cackle of 10,000 assorted fowl, delegates from 45 foreign nations and poultry fanciers from 48 States began a ten-day chicken festival. No less than 150,000 congress tickets were sold to poultry raisers four months before the opening. By the fourth day attendance was 110,000; 500,000 poultry folk were expected in Cleveland before this week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Cacklefest | 8/7/1939 | See Source »

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