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Word: supplement (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...careful survey was made of the service included in the rental. The poll asked if the rooms were furnished and if maid service, heat, gas, electricity, and telephone service were supplied. A few questions were asked about the eating facilities to supplement last year's questionnaire which was conducted by the Law School Committee of PBH. Dissatisfied students were given ample space to comment on the inconveniences of their living quarters...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GRADUATE HOUSING POLL TO EXPOSE ALL DEFECTS IN ROOMING | 1/17/1940 | See Source »

...spooks, visited haunted castles, collected accounts of ghosts, of startling dreams, of premonitions which came true. After his death-at the age of 94-his son dutifully prepared his father's ghost stories for publication. In the U. S. they were printed in Hearst's Sunday supplement, the American Weekly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Noblest of Englishmen | 1/15/1940 | See Source »

Confidentially Yours, Transradio's new Saturday supplement, was tried out for some six months in Manhattan before its network debut. Its material is gathered and sent in (sometimes in code) mainly by a special corps of nonprofessionals whose identity Transradio protects like secret agents'. Paid by the story, anywhere from $5 to $100, they number about 100, are said to be located in all U. S. State capitals, in 20 foreign capitals, in other likely listening posts. Three Confidentially Yours contributors are supposed to be former U. S. Cabinet mem bers, another a German officer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Confidentially Yours | 1/15/1940 | See Source »

...years. Broken down, this is found: total increase in imports between July 1934 and July 1937 was $699,000,000. Of this, $252,000,000 was in tea, coffee, rub ber, silk, bananas and other items noncompetitive with U. S. products; $141,000,000 was in imports required to supplement items affected by the 1935-36 drought-corn, wheat, barley, fodder, butter, etc. But these imports, Mr. Hull can show conclusively, did not displace U. S. farm products; they supplemented the U. S. supply, prevented a shortage. Further, they came in because farm prices were high, and their only effect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Saint In Serge | 1/8/1940 | See Source »

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