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Word: toed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Charles Rudolph Walgreen, 66, tightlipped, tight-minded founder of the U. S.'s second largest ($27,846,000) drugstore chain (508 stores in 37 States); in Chicago. In 1935, he removed his niece from the University of Chicago because he disapproved of the "Communistic theories" taught there, later...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Dec. 25, 1939 | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

When the British pound was at its prewar level (near par: $4.86), ?230 ($1,117.80) per ton would have been a good price for tin-equivalent (with the cost of freight and insurance) to about 48? per Ib. As the world's biggest user of tin, the U. S...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRADE: Tin Relaxed | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

To date the U. S. public has seen a good many pictures of war-order planes lined up on fields, and shrouded bomber fuselages being loaded on freighters or falling into harbor mud. But aside from aircraft it has seen little concrete evidence of war orders. Last week (see cut...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: War Orders | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

Another Allied acquisition last week was Edgar Selden Bloom, longtime president of the $281,000,000 A. T. & T. subsidiary Western Electric (which makes 80-90% of all U. S. telephone equipment). Circumstances made it easy for the British Purchasing Commission to obtain the services of a front-rank U...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: War Orders | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

No law of the land, no trust-busting Federal attorney, can interfere when Nature conspires in restraint of trade. In Kansas, No. 1 winter wheat State, the past three months' (September, October, November) "normal" rainfall expectation was 6.09 inches of rainfall; this year, actual rainfall was 1.75 inches. Nebraska...

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

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