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Word: went (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...replace Swope, G.E. chose big, 53-year-old Charles E. Wilson, who went to work for G.E. at 12 (wage, $3 per week), never left it, worked as office boy, shipping clerk, factory accountant, production manager, sales manager...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANUFACTURING: Bloodless Abdication | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

...replace Young, G.E. chose a handsome engineer-lawyer (B.S. in engineering from the University of Wisconsin, LL.B. from Fordham) named Philip D. Reed, who went to G.E. in 1926, worked mostly in the lamp department. Today Philip Reed is only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANUFACTURING: Bloodless Abdication | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

...miles long, 100 miles wide. With its blast it felled 2,250,000,000 board feet of lumber. To get this average five-year cut into ponds, into neat stacks before bark beetles and fire took their toll, the Department of Agriculture's Northeast Timber Salvage Administration went to work. By last September it had bought 600,000,000 feet of hurricane timber from some 30,000 owners for an over-all cost of better than $20 a thousand board feet, looked around for a buyer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LUMBERING: Woodpile | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

...beer at the New York World's Fair last summer pretty Florence Mistele, 18, design student, and handsome Richard Graham, 20, actor, hatched a solution to the age-old problem of what to do with one glove after the other is lost. This week their patented answer went on sale at Manhattan's swank Mark Cross Co. (leather goods). It was a glove which looked like a hand's pattern jig-sawed out of a board. It is made by sewing an identical back and palm to a leather ribbon edge. Loose and easy on the open...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRADE: Ambidextrous Glove | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

...privilege of running its street cars over their right of way. For the stockholders of the 49 underlying companies-among them the Wideners, the Elkinses and other First Philadelphia Families-this was a mighty fine deal. Their original investment in one case consisted of some horses that went to the glue factory about 1874. They claimed recently in court that their property was worth $35,000,000, and the court valued it at $6,000,000, but between 1902 and 1939 they collected $250,000,000 rent on their lease. Last week their collections ended although their lease had still...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UTILITIES: 962 Years Lost | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

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