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Word: somes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Though the Philadelphia Museum of Art welcomed Mrs. Rice's drawing room, it would welcome still more warmly a gift from her brother-in-law, Joseph Early Widener. A leathery, meticulous Philadelphia patrician, Joe Widener inherited his father's great art collection, has made it even greater by...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Brother-in-Law | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

¶ To the bankrupt Rock Island, Missouri Pacific, St. Louis-San Francisco, to the prosperous Union Pacific, Burlington, U. S. winter wheat adds up to a substantial portion of summer revenue. Largest of the winter wheat carriers is the Santa Fe. Wall Street Journal dug up some interesting figures on...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATE OF BUSINESS: Dollar Wheat | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

To Continental, Editor Kelly gave exclusive contracts for five years with four canneries, which use some $1,000,000 worth of cans a year. That means about $750,000 of new business annually for the canmaker, for three of the canneries were new customers. In return, Continental Can agreed to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANUFACTURING: Father of Peas | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

To trie cannery in midsummer went Farmer Barney Foster with a load of green peas, hand-picked and hulled. That year, 1932, the cannery shipped 60 sample cases of canned peas to U. S. grocers. This year seven regional canneries (two in Walla Walla) turned out 2,650,000 cases...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANUFACTURING: Father of Peas | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

As the centuries passed, the classically prim Italian operas were forgotten, but the frowsy Beggar's Opera became a classic. Last week the Beggar's Opera even made the 20th-century radio, when a company under Conductor Josef Honti gave it a first broadcast over NBC's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Beggar's Opera | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

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