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Word: busiest (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...June 7, 1948, said Dewey, John Sparkman became the "busiest Jim Crow agent in America."* On that he voted against 1) abolishing segregation in the armed forces, 2) an anti-lynching measure to protect members of the armed forces, 3) exempting servicemen from paying poll taxes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REPUBLICANS: The Egg & Ike | 10/13/1952 | See Source »

Last week Smith Grant was winding up his busiest season since the war at Glenlivet Distillery, which stands on a brae overlooking a fertile Banffshire valley in the heart of the Highlands. Black peat smoke belched from the distillery's tall chimney, and the pungent odor of fermenting barley drifted from its odd-shaped kiln towers. Glenlivet's 50 workers, completing their biggest distilling season in seven years, processed the last batches of whisky before the annual summer shutdown. In the three summer months, the tumbling mountain springs which rise 1,200 feet above the glen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LIQUOR: The Quintessence | 5/26/1952 | See Source »

Straight Corp., Ltd. He soon found himself controlling 23 airlines, including Western, busiest in the British Isles. Straight, who was just 34 when he took on the ?5,000-a-year BOAC job, used his private-enterprising know-how in the Socialist government's airline. He started lopping the payroll, soon trimmed the staff from 24,000 to 16,000. He hacked off some of BOAC's worst money-losing runs, began junking obsolete planes and, like a practical businessman, went after the best planes to replace them even if they didn't happen to be British...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: BOAC's Challenge | 4/14/1952 | See Source »

Members of the University Band start their busiest week of the spring come Tuesday, with a Boston concert for the Associated Exhibitors of the National Education Association at Mechanics Building...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Band Faces Busy Week of Banquet, Pair of Concerts | 4/7/1952 | See Source »

...Brown's "Band of Renown" is one of the busiest and best in the land. Les Brown, a graduate of Duke University ('36), thinks he knows why. "We prefer sound to noise," Brown writes in Metronome. "We prefer the beat over 'effects,' we prefer consonance to dissonance, and we like the melody if it's good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Band Businessman | 2/25/1952 | See Source »

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