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Word: welled (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Since he already held seven of the 13 Cabinet portfolios he might as well hold eight. Soon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: All But Five | 5/13/1929 | See Source »

...rite of investiture with the gold and purple Garter was neatly performed next day by the Duke of Gloucester, just below the well-turned knee of the Son of Heaven. A few hours later the Order of the Chrysanthemum was bestowed upon Prince Henry?tit for tat?by the owlishly spectacled Emperor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Imperial Garter | 5/13/1929 | See Source »

...lands. Its securities have been somewhat in the "dollar a dozen" class, the half-million-share day closing at 8¼, a net of three. Most of the buying came from the West, was explained as originating in a rumor that the company had struck a new large-volume well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Arkansas Natural | 5/13/1929 | See Source »

...country. Its subsidiary properties include a railroad, a fleet of 24 ships, a power company, bituminous coal deposits, and several hundred thousand acres of timber lands. Thus Broker Eaton's various steel companies were assured of ample raw material, and Cleveland's Steel Eatons and Iron Mathers were well and profitably linked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: One Big Union | 5/13/1929 | See Source »

...embalming fluid of the undertaker, is one of the necessities of modern existence. Into each life some industrial alcohol must fall. Ethyl, Methyl, Amyl. There are three general kinds of alcohol-ethyl, methyl and amyl. Ethyl alcohol is grain alcohol, and may be used socially (as in cocktails) as well as industrially. Methyl alcohol is wood alcohol, made by distillation of the gases which escape from burning wood. Unlike ethyl, methyl is immediately poisonous, almost instantaneously fatal. Amyl alcohol is a by-product of ethyl, is an acrid, evil-smelling substance commonly known as fusel oil, and is a comparatively...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Ethyl, Methyl, Amyl | 5/13/1929 | See Source »

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