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Word: american (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...gradual slump which this area has felt since the textile shutdowns in 1921; possibly, New England can one day rival the midwest in basic industrial strength. As one commenter put it, "When New England gets a steel mill, it will begin a new era of leadership in American industry...

Author: By Edward C. Haley, | Title: BRASS TACKS | 11/18/1949 | See Source »

...purchase-card system at the request of Allen E. Kline '50, chairman of the purchase committee, Harris, who said he was speaking "as an economist who has some interest in the problem of financing higher education," stated that payment of college costs is "a great burden" on the average American family...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harris Says Purchase Cards Aid Economy | 11/18/1949 | See Source »

...American Airlines said last night that it had seats left on a plane leaving for New Haven at 8:36 a.m. tomorrow...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Local Partisans Follow Team By Plane, Train, Auto, Bus | 11/18/1949 | See Source »

...actor's efforts do not salvage much of the film. I cannot believe that this production is very true to Sitwell; it has no wit or lightness. In fact, the whole mediocre picture looks much too much like an American production for comfort. The disease may very likely be spreading...

Author: By Maxwell E. Foster jr., | Title: THE MOVIEGOER | 11/17/1949 | See Source »

Miss Ray Lev, pianist and former American Labor Party candidate for the New York City Council, and William Patterson, executive secretary of the Civil Rights Congress, which sponsored the Robeson concert, will also speak. Miss Lev, who was one of the performers at the Peekskill concert, and Patterson both saw the riot and will give eyewitness accounts...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: YP Slates Rally Against Peekskill Concert Violence | 11/17/1949 | See Source »

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