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Word: coverers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Checkmate. In Detroit, Vernon Dobson bought a car with a worthless check, sold it at a profit to cover the check with cash, discovered that he had been given a bum check himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Aug. 16, 1948 | 8/16/1948 | See Source »

...addition there are 85 cities in the U.S., 20 in Canada and 60 overseas where TIME requires independent coverage but not fulltime representation. In each, TIME has a local correspondent (called a "string correspondent" or "stringer") to watch for news stories of more than local interest, to cover special assignments for our editors, to answer their queries, and to keep them filled in on what people in their sections are doing, saying and thinking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Aug. 16, 1948 | 8/16/1948 | See Source »

Since the Catalina flew the British flag, Wong Yu will be tried in Hong Kong. Since piracy laws don't yet cover air piracy, he will probably be charged with simple murder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HONG KONG: Pilots & Pirates | 8/9/1948 | See Source »

...Health Department was also handing out 500,000 pamphlets, written by U.S. Public Health Service experts. They were designed for distribution in bars, barbershops, drugstores, rooming houses and hotels; each has an appropriate cover, a list of gonorrhea symptoms, and the cheerful news that one injection of penicillin cures nine out of ten cases...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Capital Cleanup | 8/9/1948 | See Source »

Three giant Sunday supplements blanket U.S. newsstands and front porches every week. But the blanket is full of holes; for small dailies and weeklies there is no mass-produced American Weekly, This Week or Parade. Last week a new supplement got ready to cover these journalistic bare spots. Nowadays, which will start in the fall, has already signed up 305 Midwest papers with a total circulation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Nowadays on Main Street | 8/9/1948 | See Source »

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