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Word: turned (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...back to Washington next day, via the Shenandoah Endless Caverns, one of those things occurred which turn Secret Servicemen grey. A car shot out of an intersection on the Lee Highway, directly across the path of the President's car. Only swift action by White House Chauffeur Monty Schneider averted a nasty collision...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Hush Week | 5/1/1939 | See Source »

...confiscate" (and of course pay for) coal consigned to other users over its lines. Pennsylvania's Legislature at Harrisburg formally begged the negotiators to come to terms. Here and there union pickets dumped coal trucked from non-union mines, and police began to worry that prolonged abstention might turn into a bloody, old-fashioned coal strike. Nearly everywhere, company stores owned by the standpat operators continued to sell food on credit to John Lewis' abstaining miners...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Prolonged Abstention | 5/1/1939 | See Source »

...been pictured as emotionally unbalanced, but probably few men in public life have their emotions so completely under control. The man who in six short years has redrawn the map of Europe, overturned the old standards of political behavior and made the world listen to his every word, can turn his emotions on and off at will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Aggrandizer's Anniversary | 5/1/1939 | See Source »

...mighty" lift to Loft, the decision not only handed it Pepsi-Cola but ordered Mr. Guth to turn over back dividends of some $475,000. Mr. Guth was reported interested in a new dark, sweet soft drink. Name: Noxie-Kola...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRADE: Loft Lift | 4/24/1939 | See Source »

Like all cars the Derham Brothers turn out, Mr. Whalen's is a synthesis of the automaker's science and the body-builder's art. It seats nine people comfortably (aside from any on the top), is equipped with fog lights, radio, streamlined glass wind-wings, many another luxury, including extra-depth cushions for Fair visitors who may be as tender as they are distinguished. It contains $1,850 worth of chassis and engine, $5,150 worth of body and design...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANUFACTURING: Expensive Bodies | 4/24/1939 | See Source »

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