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FICTION
Betwixt Life and Death
September
1939
By
JESSE STUART
POTABLES
For the Love of Peat
September
1939
By
LAWTON MACKALL
FICTION
Mystery By the Wind
September
1939
By
CAPT. WILLIAM OUTERSON
FICTION
Little Forces of Nature
September
1939
By
MANUEL KOMROFF
ARTICLE
The Censor Marches On . . . IV
September
1939
By
MORRIS L. ERNST, ALEXANDER LINDEY
ARTICLE
China Moves on Yankee Power
September
1939
By
JEROME BEATTY
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FICTION
Betwixt Life and Death
September
1939
By
JESSE STUART
POTABLES
For the Love of Peat
September
1939
By
LAWTON MACKALL
FICTION
Mystery By the Wind
September
1939
By
CAPT. WILLIAM OUTERSON
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“Well, If It IS Santa Claus, Miss DeVere, Have Him Come Down and Register"
JANUARY 1938
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"I Sometimes Wish I'd Took Up Something Less Precarious"
APRIL 1940
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“What If We Don’t Know Each Other? Just Because You’re a Banker Owning Four Oil Wells and 51 Per Cent of the Stock of J. B. Upswitch and Company with a Triple-A Rating in Dun and Bradstreet Means Nothing to Little Me”
OCTOBER, 1949
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"You Guys Better Get Busy—first Thing You Know You’ll Be Extinct!"
JULY 1935
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“Now, Don’t You Worry About Tom—i’m Taking Good Care of Him”
AUGUST 1939
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"It isn’t that I’m mercenary, George, but my love for you may be temporary and I know my love for money is permanent"
FEBRUARY 1945
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