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Word: alas (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dispensable. In Childersburg,Ala., J.A. Emerson got a job handling draft deferments of indispensable factory workers. Two days later he was drafted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Feb. 16, 1942 | 2/16/1942 | See Source »

Marriage Revealed. Eugenia Bankhead, 40, sister of Actress Tallulah; and Marine Corps Sergeant William D. Sprouse; she for the seventh time;* near Montgomery, Ala...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Feb. 16, 1942 | 2/16/1942 | See Source »

Food, Not Pills. Mass distribution of vitamin pills to factory workers is "irrational, unwise, uneconomical." So declared the American Medical Association's Council on Foods & Nutrition, headed by Dr. James Somerville McLester of Birmingham, Ala...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Health in Industry | 1/26/1942 | See Source »

...Ala Littoria (Italian parent of Lati air line from Rome to Rio de Janeiro...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR ECONOMY: Axel & The Axis | 1/26/1942 | See Source »

...Portland they were talking about the Mauna Ala, which grounded while groping for the mouth of the Columbia River in a blackout, and the 60,000 Christmas trees which washed ashore while the freighter broke up. In San Francisco they were talking about flares dropped from an enemy plane, about lack of fish, shrimps, crabs (because the fishing fleets could not put out), about the Governor's fight with the Attorney General on what a state of emergency meant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The U.S. At War: The West at War | 12/29/1941 | See Source »

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