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Word: worthing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...farm. From 62 applicants it selected Farmer Hughes and his Rosedale Dairy Farm to receive the benefits of this free experiment. Virginia Public Service Co. donated its power, made sure everybody knew about it (see cut). Members of the National Electrical Manufacturers Association supplied $5,000 worth of equipment without charge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FARMERS: Electrical Elysium | 8/3/1936 | See Source »

That, last week, was the Arlington Classic, feature race of the 30-day meeting at the Midwest's greatest race track. Purse for the eighth running of the Classic was $35,000. That the Arlington Classic will eventually be worth $100,000 and the most celebrated horse race in the world was the proud prospect offered to Chicago last week by the Arlington Park Jockey Club's Founder John Daniel Hertz. Discussing the track's policy and progress, Mr. Hertz announced that since 1929 Arlington Park has repaid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Horses & Courses | 8/3/1936 | See Source »

...death. Lacking evidence, a minister's conception of Heaven is not much more valid than was that of Mark Twain, who in Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven pictured it as a place where people do what they always wanted to do on earth; where, on sheer worth, a backwoods poet from Tennessee takes precedence over Shakespeare...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: After Death | 8/3/1936 | See Source »

...Exchange Commission chairman received for devising a recapitalization plan for Radio Corp. of America (TIME, Feb. 10). From the mephitic mystery that cloaked Mr. Kennedy's report ever since he handed it in early in June it looked as if Paramount had certainly got its money's worth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Profitless Paramount | 7/27/1936 | See Source »

...leaving about $1,900,000,000 to worry about after Aug. 15. And while $1,900,000,000 is a larger figure for excess reserves than ever recorded prior to 1935, it could be more than wiped out by selling the Reserve System's $2,400,000,000 worth of Government securities. Furthermore, with reserve requirements averaging 15% of demand deposits, the excess $1,900,000,000 will then represent not $19,000,000,000 of potential credit but less than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Brakes Tightened | 7/27/1936 | See Source »

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