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Word: somes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Nazi efficiency, aping U. S. individualism, had established not one but ten newspapers for German soldiers fighting World War II. Some were published at the front, others in Berlin and Breslau for front-line distribution. All were strictly edited by agents of the Ministry for Propaganda; they gave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Westwall Dailies | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

Thus passed into virtual oblivion the St. Nicholas that had nourished some of the major talents of a past generation. To St. Nicholas in 1886 young Richard Harding Davis sold his first story, about football at Princeton. For St. Nicholas Rudyard Kipling wrote Just So Stories, Mark Twain Tom Sawyer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: St. Nicholas to Woolworth's | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

Seven Tower magazines (devoted to movies and radio, home and children, love and mystery) had shared a total circulation of some 900,000 copies before a Federal Grand Jury indicted Publisher Catherine McNelis for using the mails to defraud. (Case is still pending.) One of the best had been Tiny...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: St. Nicholas to Woolworth's | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

> In several industries customers who had put in big rush orders began sending instructions to slow down deliveries. Perversely, some frightened sellers tried to speed deliveries lest the orders be canceled.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATE OF BUSINESS: Backlog Boom | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

Some last week's evidence of this new stage in war boom:

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATE OF BUSINESS: Backlog Boom | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

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