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Word: busyness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Outside the little (pop. 5,230) town of Jacarezinho, 335 miles upcountry from São Paulo, several hundred farmers watched a big tractor rip a stump out of the rich red earth. Said one grizzled farmer to Nelson Rockefeller, who had come all the way from New York for...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRAZIL: Good Works at a Profit | 9/27/1948 | See Source »

¶ In the busy little Columbia River port of Astoria, Ore. (pop. 15,000), almost everybody makes his living by fishing-chiefly for salmon. Last week the school board had approved a new two-year course at the high-school level. Subject: fishing.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Things They Teach, Sep. 27, 1948 | 9/27/1948 | See Source »

Volunteer Firemen. The history of the Moina Michael commemorative was fairly typical. About 75% of recent stamps, commemorating everything from the Palomar Mountain Observatory to volunteer firemen, were based on sketches submitted by Congressmen or their constituents. But when the busy Bureau designers are given a slightly freer hand, as...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Gum-Up | 9/20/1948 | See Source »

In London, where a busy summer had already spawned half a dozen hits, the new season began briskly with what looked like another success by prolific Terence Rattigan (The Winslow Boy, O Mistress Mine). Called Playbill, it was a program of two one-acters: The Browning Version, a study of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Season in London | 9/20/1948 | See Source »

For weeks the corridors of Detroit's General Motors Building buzzed with rumors. President Charles Erwin Wilson had been very busy-and very quiet. G.M.'s top brass, so the gossip went, was in for the biggest shake-up in years. This week the shaking started. The biggest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: The Big Shake | 9/20/1948 | See Source »

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