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Word: establishments (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...They would help themselves and each other to establish armed forces adequate to defend themselves but would "refrain . . . from the threat or use of force in any manner inconsistent with the purposes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ADMINISTRATION: Lessons Learned | 3/28/1949 | See Source »

...Nevada Assemblyman C. C. Boak, 79, introduced a bill to grant divorces by slot machine. The divorce seeker would punch the machine once a day for 42 days, to establish residence, then insert 200 silver dollars. As the divorce popped out of a slot, colored lights would flash, wheels spin and a jukebox would play America. ¶ Hoping to sell more pretzels during Lent, Alex V. Tisdale, president of the National Pretzel Bakers Institute, explained that the twist was originally supposed to represent arms folded in prayer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Americana, Mar. 21, 1949 | 3/21/1949 | See Source »

...Salzburg Seminar, after two years in the test tube, will work to establish itself on a permanent basis this summer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Salzburg Seminar Opens Third Year | 3/7/1949 | See Source »

...government welcomed Harry Truman's plan. He began holding daily cabinet sessions on the subject, and told Under Secretary of Economy and Commerce Raul Fernandez to draw up a brochure for presentation to the State Department early in March. It will list the industries Chile hopes to establish, specify which parts of the country are best suited to each, and how much of what type of capital each will require...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Good Partners | 2/28/1949 | See Source »

...there is a theoretical way of "seeing around the earth" and guiding a missile that may explain the continued official interest in artificial satellites (TIME, Jan. 10). Granted the development of nuclear-powered rocket motors, it would not be impossible to establish such a satellite revolving round the earth like a tame moon. If its orbit were several thousand miles high, it could watch a good part of the earth (see diagram...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Uninhabited Aircraft | 2/28/1949 | See Source »

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