Word: bille
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...average TIME-reading woman has charge accounts at two department stores (one also has a charge account at a lumber yard, another at a farm equipment dealer's). Her food bill last year was $27 a week (although 11% say it was over $40). She owns 4.6 cookbooks and tried out at least one new recipe last month, which "everybody" liked. Her principal hobbies are her home and husband, sewing-dressmaking-knitting, gardening, sports, music, reading. She received a gift of flowers or candy on three or more occasions last year-and, in case anyone is interested...
...himself go: "Home was the Home Run King . . . For this was what Ruth was king and master of -the stroke that led to home. All men are ever turning homeward. The very baseball phrase-'Home Run'-has a music of its own . . ." On the sport page, Bill Corum told how he had known for some time that "the Great Umpire had his thumb pressed against 'strike three' on the final and inescapable indicator." And Sport Editor Jimmy Powers, a more literary fellow, quoted John Donne about not sending to know for whom the bell tolls...
...many a steel buyer whose bill was upped when the Supreme Court outlawed the basing point system (TIME, May 10), continuous casting looked like a lifesaver...
...ticker tape attached to the face of the keys. The customers take the tape to the cashier, who inserts it in a translator machine. That sets off more electric impulses which not only start the goods sliding down a conveyor belt, but at the same time add up the bill...
...serve only that company.) Next come St. Louis' Mississippi Valley Barge Lines, Pittsburgh's Union Barge Line and the American Barge Line Co. of Jeffersonville, Ind. On their newest craft, the skippers don't have to smell their way through fog, as Sam Clemens and Steamboat Bill used to. Radar does the trick nowadays...