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Word: accidentals (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Since he joined Northwest back in 1932 as traffic manager, Hunter has done things in a hurry. He rose to be vice president and general manager within a year, then helped push the line into big-league operations by extending its routes west from Bismarck, N.D. to Seattle and Portland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: Northwest Goes East | 1/1/1945 | See Source »

Newsman Cowan, 34, a shy, stocky, serious Omaha World-Herald reporter-photographer who covers the police run on weekends, was sitting in Omaha's detective bureau when the accident call droned in over the radio. Racing down two flights of stairs to the pressroom, he grabbed his camera, ran...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Unhappy Triumph | 1/1/1945 | See Source »

Tip contests, originated more than 20 years ago, have brought city papers many a sensational beat. Gene Howe's has brought the Globe-News an average of 50 stories a week: news of murders, wrecks, births in cabs, isolated hail storms, family fights, flights of geese. So enthusiastically do...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Reader-Reporters | 12/11/1944 | See Source »

His first real break was as the juvenile lead in A Guy Named Joe. After two weeks' shooting he was in an auto wreck, got a hole punched in his skull and his brain punched full of roadside gravel. But the Joe company voted unanimously to keep his role...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Dec. 4, 1944 | 12/4/1944 | See Source »

Marriage v. Career. Sobered by his accident, and intensely ambitious, Johnson lives even more simply than the average young star. His agent allows him $25 of his comparatively modest $750 a week for spending money; the rest goes into War Bonds and toward buying a house. He gets to bed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Dec. 4, 1944 | 12/4/1944 | See Source »

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