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Word: distributee (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week an anonymous tip sent the police into Genoa's big Ansaldo shipyards, which they had searched unsuccessfully before. This time they came upon the biggest prize yet. Under a staircase behind a false wall was an underground cavern, and in it were 15 tons of war materiel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Arsenal of Terror | 3/5/1951 | See Source »

Watkins last night said he was "sorry" and termed his action "the most foolish thing I ever did." As he was getting ready to distribute the polls, he said he became so "enthusiastic" about his ideas (a class news letter after graduation and class committee files on members of the...

Author: By Edward J. Ottenheimer jr., | Title: Protests Over Politics Cloud Eve of Voting | 3/2/1951 | See Source »

For the second week, Buenos Aires' La Prensa was closed down. The independent conservative newspaper, one of the most respected in the world, was in a fight for its existence against Juan Peron. It had been shut down by the refusal of the government-bossed news vendors' union...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: La Prensa at War | 2/12/1951 | See Source »

All the same, DiSalle went right ahead with his price control plan-even to the extent of asking the Government Printing Office to prepare application blanks for price rises, and asking the Post Office Department to distribute them in post offices throughout the nation. Then DiSalle's plan hit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PRICES: Boom-ta-ra | 1/15/1951 | See Source »

In its long fight to divorce moviemaking from exhibiting, the Justice Department won the third round of its bout with Hollywood's Big Five (TIME, May 17, 1948, et seq.) Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc., following the lead of Paramount and RKO, last week agreed to split into two new...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SHOW BUSINESS: Third Round | 1/15/1951 | See Source »

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