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Word: busyness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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The steelworkers' President Phil Murray was busy at the negotiating table, but C.I.O. President Phil Murray had other troubles on his mind. For months Murray had been threatening stern measures against rebellious unions like the Communist-wired United Electrical Workers. Last week U.E., the C.I.O.'s biggest left...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Grounds for Divorce | 10/3/1949 | See Source »

Good Politics, Good Business. Pittsburgh, like every other city, had a list of hopeful plans waiting; some of them dated as far back as 1910. But in Pittsburgh a "must" from a Mellon list gets done, especially when the Mellon himself gets busy and sees that it is done. R...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PENNSYLVANIA: Mr. Mellon's Patch | 10/3/1949 | See Source »

This season his salary is around $40,-ooo, and he has an annoyance shared only by the most prominent young ballplayers: the gossip columnists keep trying to marry him off. Most annoying is a Winchell rumor that he is using his home-run cash to buy gold trinkets for Monica...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Pride of the Pirates | 10/3/1949 | See Source »

One of the great problems in the Square now, under the rotary traffic experiment, stems from the fact that pedestrians don't believe in crossing only at the designated crosswalks. This obviously leads to trouble in such a busy intersection as Harvard Square, where well over 70,000 persons transfer...

Author: By Gene R. Kearney, | Title: Cambridge Fights to Unsnarl Traffic | 9/30/1949 | See Source »

Soulima, 39 ("born between Firebird and Petrouchka"), lives with his wife Franchise and son Jean, 4, only a few bars and beats away from Igor in Hollywood. But he has not yet found much time to visit with the man he usually refers to as "my father," but sometimes as...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Out of Glory | 9/26/1949 | See Source »

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