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Word: departmentals (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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It was a long, hard week for Harry Truman. Each morning he chatted and chaffed his way through ten appointments, and each afternoon he thrashed about, thigh deep, in the budget. Outside his oval office early in the week an unseasonably warm sun drenched the White House's south...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Birds & Budgets | 12/27/1948 | See Source »

The question was carefully phrased. Had Alger Hiss or his wife ever turned over any Government documents to Whittaker Chambers? In a hushed room in New York's federal courthouse, Alger Hiss, onetime State Department official, listened to the question. Outside, a wet snow was falling on the city...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INVESTIGATIONS: The Accused | 12/27/1948 | See Source »

But he had been an office boy only three months when he was moved into the copy research department where he could put his liking for market research to work. Not long after, Harper was made manager of copy research: at 28, only seven years after he had left Yale...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ADVERTISING: Hurry-Up Man | 12/20/1948 | See Source »

On Harper's team is his wife Virginia, whom he met while she was a clerical worker at the agency, and married in 1942. She is now assistant director of McCann-Erickson's copy research department. Having no children, Mr. & Mrs. Harper sometimes stay at the office until...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ADVERTISING: Hurry-Up Man | 12/20/1948 | See Source »

Furriers were digging foxholes for a long bout with the buyers' strike. Manhattan's I. J. Fox, Inc., biggest U.S. fur retailer, canceled plans for four new New York City stores, decided instead to lease fur departments in smaller department stores all over the U.S. By plugging lower...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FURS: Trouble in Mink | 12/20/1948 | See Source »

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