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Word: exacts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...present the Gilman Engineering and Manufacturing Corp. of Janesville, Wis., a subsidiary of the Parker Pen Co., which has been granted exclusive rights to manufacture the ripper, is working to fill orders for millions (the exact figure is a trade secret) of the needles. According to Mrs. Lawrence, additional orders are coming in daily from all over the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, May 30, 1949 | 5/30/1949 | See Source »

...Mayor Kenny also was a city with one of the highest tax rates in the nation, rigged assessments, discouraged businesses, factories deserted by fleeing industry, a city turned into a huge patchwork of slums by political graft. Left to historians was the problem of discovering, if they could, the exact details of how Frank Hague, on a salary never bigger than the mayor's $8,500 a year, became several times a millionaire. Left to Frank Hague were his declining years-to spend in his suite at Manhattan's Plaza Hotel, in his $7,000-a-year apartment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW JERSEY: Hague's End | 5/23/1949 | See Source »

Theodore Pitman, himself a gifted craftsman demands accuracy in all the Studio's work--even down to the exact proportions of the trees and figures in the Yard. He confesses that he doesn't know how any of his assistants have the patience to fix the leaves on trees or to paint in windows on the buildings, for he personally prefers working on the interesting general problems in modeling rather than on the meticulous details. Yet it is the combination of Pitman's modeling genius and the fine precision work of his assistants that have gained the Pitman Studio...

Author: By Edward C. Haley, | Title: Circling the Square | 5/19/1949 | See Source »

...feel sure Noah constructed the Ark in this manner. Unfortunately, the artist did not. I think we should be as nearly exact as possible in such matters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 16, 1949 | 5/16/1949 | See Source »

...Common Defense." Bradley thought that the U.S., once it had approved the treaty, should proceed to furnish arms to Britain and the Western European powers. Under the waspish questioning of Missouri's legalistic Senator Forrest Donnell, he admitted he could not compute the exact dollar cost of U.S. surplus arms to be supplied. But, he added: "They may well be worth a lot more to us in the hands of somebody else than in a storehouse over here...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Next Witness | 5/16/1949 | See Source »

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