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...STRAWSTACK-Dorothy Cameron Disney-Random House ($2). A conservative Vermont spinster buys a swank Maryland farm, regrets it when she finds herself involved in three horrible murders. Cleverly-constructed story in the Mary Roberts Rinehart tradition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: March Mysteries | 4/3/1939 | See Source »

Straws show which way the wind blows. But when a strawstack is an indicator it tells tales of a wind that is blowing near hurricane strength. Last week 37 banks in Minnesota, North and South Dakota and Montana,?37 banks with over $350.000,000 of assets?were the strawstack at which the Northwest cocked an admiring eye. For the 3 7 banks were united in a great bank chain, headed by the First National banks of St. Paul and Minneapolis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Northwest Wind | 9/2/1929 | See Source »

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