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Word: barringer (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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War brought jeeps and trucks and waddling busses, a ceaseless need for speed. But people told each other the hubbub was just a part of war. Then last week, the Assembly voted 2-to-1 to lift the ban on private cars, unanimously to permit taxicabs and motorcycles. Barring a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BERMUDA: Blow Your Horn | 3/13/1944 | See Source »

Barring a few lapses of taste, Up In Arms is fun to watch, good to look at. Dinah Shore puts a lot of warmth into her characterization, a lot of heat into the songs Now I Know, Tess' Torch Song. But the heart, liver & lights of this cinemusical is...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Mar. 13, 1944 | 3/13/1944 | See Source »

Last week two more powerful Essex-class carriers, the Bennington and the Shangri-La, were launched from East Coast shipyards. When they join the fleet, at least eleven of these 27,000-ton flattops will be in operation-barring possible sinkings.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Vindicating the Carrier | 3/6/1944 | See Source »

¶ The rule barring mothers of small children from the WACs was made after Mrs. Hobby (and some others) had joined up.-ED.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Lovable Rabbit | 2/14/1944 | See Source »

The railroad reorganization wringer squeezed tighter last week. Stockholders in two once-bankrupt carriers saw their chances of participating in juicy war profits gurgle down the drain. The Supreme Court upheld a lower court decision barring any revision of ICC's plan to streamline the financial structure of the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RAILROADS: Stockholders Lose | 1/3/1944 | See Source »

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