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Word: stilles (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last week's market price of 34 were worth $1,190,000, plus either 35,000 more shares of the same common stock or $1,000,000 more of the same preferred. Also Paul Kollsman will receive $20,000 a year as technical adviser, and Kollsman products will still be called Kollsman. Apparently the Kollsman number is $4,000,000 plus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Mr. Kollsman's Number | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

...night last week the members of the New York Railroad Club sat down to their 67th annual dinner in Manhattan's Hotel Commodore. For topflight railroad executives it was a relatively cheery meal. They were still chortling because freight carloadings rose 30% between Sept. 9 and Oct. 21 -the largest increase over the shortest period in U. S. history. Phrases like "this augurs well" cropped up in more than one of the evening's speeches. But to thoughtful men among them, the carloading boom was an ugly fact to face. For it demonstrated that their huge industry cannot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CARRIERS: When If Ever a Profit? | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

...could Dietrich come back via the western trail?-her bottle-tossing, eye-rolling and shoulder-shrugging, her singing (in a whiskey mezzo) of Little Joe and The Boys in the Backroom supplied the answer. Dietrich has. She makes it dazzlingly clear that the Dietrich legs, once more unsheathed, will still be taking her places...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Dec. 18, 1939 | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

...three Cezanne paintings which are now being shown in Fogg Museum, we can begin to see the truth embodied in Mr. Phillips statement. Cezanne manages to create something besides the object which he is representing; and that "something" which he creates is the basis of his painting. Take the still-life piece in which we find some fruit and a napkin lying on a table. Now the apples possess. To go further, we may say that Cezanne's painting of an object is, in reality, a presentation of that object's essential characteristics; the object itself, as something which actually...

Author: By Jack Wilner, | Title: Collections & Critiques | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

...under the living room tree? They were thing worth getting up at six o'clock in the morning to go down and see! But now--well, Christmas is losing all its glamor. A tour of the toy departments of the department stores shows that you've not been standing still. Yours toys have been making great progress. Today's youngsters have it swell. Vag felt very lonesome the other day as the peered with amazement at some of the toys ticketed for lucky kids on the 25th...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

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