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Word: filed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...expect to receive the five new assignments respectively on July 19, July 31, and August 7, 16, and 26. Of course this schedule is subject to addition, insertion, multiplication and more reports, but not subtraction. So clean up your typewriter, file down your nails...and cancel your week-end dates (Oh yeah?). The Middies have four more reports to go definitely, probably five, as follows: Foreign Resources, Procurement, Management, and Finance, due respectively July 29, August 9, 18, and 26. Carry...

Author: By M. J. Roth, | Title: STRAIGHT DOPE | 7/9/1943 | See Source »

Franklin Roosevelt had won nothing. His Administration had underestimated the danger, had relied on labor's no-strike pledge and on a wishful hunch that the United Mine Workers rank & file would not follow Lewis. It had let the coal strike grow into such an issue that neither side could back down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who Won? | 7/5/1943 | See Source »

...record - Let's swell the file with nonsense...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Language | 6/21/1943 | See Source »

...across northeast India, a perky, pint-sized, hickory-tough U.S. Army officer slung a sack of dollar watches over his shoulder and set out on foot through one of the world's wildest jungles. He was armed only with a stout Kentucky hunting knife. His escort was a file of stocky, semicivilized native bearers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BASES: Kehoe of the Head-hunters | 5/31/1943 | See Source »

Actually, Arnold, now a Federal judge himself, had been looking down his nose at A.P. for several years. In 1940 he had tried to persuade Washington Times-Herald publisher Eleanor Patterson to file a complaint after her application for A.P. membership was blocked by the Washington Star and Post. She refused. Two years later Marshall Field was willing. Target of the suit is A.P.'s set of bylaws. Under them it is almost impossible for a newspaper owner to get A.P. service, even if he can pay, in a city where there is already an A.P. member paper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The A.P. Suit | 5/10/1943 | See Source »

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