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Word: thesee (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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But the U. S. has not been spared from getting down to cases about tanks, torpedo tubes, guns, engines, propeller shafts, observation instruments, etc. Manufacturing these requires one of the few basic materials the U. S. happens to lack-tin. So does manufacturing tin cans to hold the No. 1...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: METALS: Tintinnabulations | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

None of these projects, however, promises the U. S. self-sufficiency in tin. Phelps Dodge now produces only at the rate of 1,200 tons a year, Argentinian production is only about 1,700 tons a year. U. S. peacetime needs are 6-7,000 tons a month (current needs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: METALS: Tintinnabulations | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

The above novels reveal no promising new writers. Few will be remembered longer than a month. Few improve on past performance. But taken together these 22 novels suggest a couple of general observations: 1) it needs a whale of a lot of inferior novels to get a first-rate one...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fifty Man Years | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

Tibor Koeves (pronounced Kovesh), a Hungarian journalist who writes in English, has been traveling most of the past 15 years. His Timetable for Tramps, purporting to be the first "textbook" on its subject, is a shrewdly organized, gracefully written set of casual essays on travel as a disease, an art...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Second Best to Love | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

In giving Mr. Siepmann a Harvard title, which will prove an open sesame in the circles in which he will move, the University made a tactical blunder. In these days of indirect propaganda, the coloring of news dispatches and radio programs is all-important: it has a cumulative effect upon...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BRITANNIA RULES THE AIR WAVES | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

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