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Word: betweeners (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Furthermore, said Nathan, the workers had earned a raise: "The buying power of hourly rates of pay ... in the steel industry increased one-seventh between 1939 and 1949, whereas productivity per man-hour rose by 50% ... In the short run, changes in productivity are more affected by changes in ... labor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STEEL: Last Licks | 9/5/1949 | See Source »

In the record war between RCA Victor and Columbia Records, Inc., both sides have hotly wooed Decca Records, Inc. as a prospective ally. But Decca, third largest U.S. recordmaker, has played hard to get, shrewdly watching & waiting to see whether RCA's 45 r.p.m. or Columbia's 33...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RETAIL TRADE: Record Dither | 9/5/1949 | See Source »

Farmers who strolled into a machinery exhibit at the Iowa State Fair in Des Moines last week stopped and stared. Nestled between a shiny red cultivator and a new Ford tractor was a stock and grain brokerage office. A Trans-Lux projector flashed ticker tape reports from the New York...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WALL STREET: Farmer's Market | 9/5/1949 | See Source »

In fine form, Bryant missed only one entrance cue: between scenes he went aft to inspect his catfish line, and found it snagged. After wading in to pull it clear, he returned to the stage muddied and breathless in time to ad-lib to King Claudius : "I just caught the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: There Goes the Showboat | 9/5/1949 | See Source »

Peter at last been found? Delicate Digging. Throughout the centuries, the appearance and location of St. Peter's tomb has been a rich source of controversy and legend. The Liber Pontificalis, a chronicle of papal history from the ist to the 15th Century, maintained that after St. Peter was...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Confident Awaiting | 9/5/1949 | See Source »

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