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Word: droppings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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When he began his campaign, there was bovine TB in all states; it ran as high as 80% to 100%. Today there is less than .5% in any state. In the same period the human mortality rate from TB has drop ped from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOARDS & BUREAUS: Man of Faith | 8/16/1943 | See Source »

...will be weeks before the ground party can slash its way through and bring them out. Meanwhile planes make daily flights to drop supplies of food, tents, clothing-and trinkets to pacify their hosts, a tribe of headhunters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Uninvited Guests | 8/16/1943 | See Source »

...tops in Company B, with 73 former executives, and smallest in Company C, with 51. The next largest contingent in the school is made up of ex-accountants, 15 per cent or 189 in number. These former income tax wrestlers are largest in Company D, with 44, and drop down to 27 in Company...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE HARD SCUTTLEBUTT | 8/13/1943 | See Source »

...drop from last year in farm crops...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOOD: Grow More, Eat Less | 8/9/1943 | See Source »

Bill Jack's plant is not a place where a pin could be heard to drop. It has been described as "a blueprint for bedlam." In the movie, when Jack & Heintz workers arrive on the job, a voice announces over a loudspeaker: "All aboard! Next stop Berlin!" Promptly workers grab their tools, create a strangely realistic din which represents a train leaving a station, putting on steam, finally roaring along at breakneck speed. When workers get down to work, they do so to the crash of jazz-band disks. Girls keep time by wiggling their hips on their stools...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema, Aug. 9, 1943 | 8/9/1943 | See Source »

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