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Word: bigs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lights went out. Listeners above could hear his teeth chattering and he seemed short of breath. Once he said: "I'm freezing to death." But he stuck it out to 4,500. "I'll say it's cold down here. There goes a big white jellyfish. I never saw anything like that before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Deep Dip | 8/29/1949 | See Source »

...think that labor has got to be just as big as industry in seeing that the right [bargaining] results are reached. If labor is not big enough, then we have got to fight the thing out. That is the way I look at bargaining. If they think we are wrong, they strike us, see? That is the way this thing should work. It is a hell of a good way to work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STEEL: See? | 8/29/1949 | See Source »

...other horse-opera stars as Roy Rogers and Gene Autry, one retailer estimated the trade would sell upwards of 40 million pieces of Western gear this year. About half of all boys' furnishings will have a Western touch. Though the boom has been building for several years, one big reason for the sudden upsurge is television. Unable to get current movies, TV stations have resurrected hundreds of old-fashioned Westerns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Moppets' Stampede | 8/29/1949 | See Source »

...sales and production. With or without investment." In this way, Detroit's Charles S. Langs, 36, the harried inventor of Posēs (pronounced pose-ease), a strapless, wireless, adhesive brassière, hoped to get out from under a mushrooming small business which had grown too big to handle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SMALL BUSINESS: Too Big to Handle | 8/29/1949 | See Source »

Last week Langs confessed: "I don't know anything about merchandising. It will take a big outfit to market this properly." If the right company answered the ad, Langs said he might turn over the gadget and just take a royalty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SMALL BUSINESS: Too Big to Handle | 8/29/1949 | See Source »

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