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Word: firming (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bowles's great delight in government may be a bad thing for the postwar U.S., as the National Association of Manufacturers has been charging (in advertisements prepared by Benton & Bowles, the firm which Bowles helped found). It may be a good thing, as a vast majority of the nation's plain people believe. At all events, it must be reckoned with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ADMINISTRATION: Battle of the Century | 3/4/1946 | See Source »

...first Benton despaired of ever teaching his protégé anything about copy writing. But four years later they had enough skill, money ($16,000) and mutual confidence to start their own firm of Benton & Bowles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ADMINISTRATION: Battle of the Century | 3/4/1946 | See Source »

Glinka:'Russian and Ludmilla (soloists, chorus and orchestra of the Moscow State Theater of the U.S.S.R.; Disc, 4 sides). One of Russia's oldest operas (1842) released on records for the first time in the U.S. by Moe Asch's new firm (TIME, Feb. 25). The Russians sing vigorously and loud. Performance: good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: New Records, Mar. 4, 1946 | 3/4/1946 | See Source »

...small, homelike flat on the top floor of the Foreign Office. He is rabidly jealous of his privacy and coldly forbidding toward most reporters. Confided one London correspondent last week: "The only way to get him is to call the Foreign Office switchboard and say in a firm voice: 'The flat, please...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UNO: Great Commoner | 2/18/1946 | See Source »

...Million Cash. Last fortnight the Quebec Government gave Hollinger an exclusive 20-year concession to explore and develop 3,900 square miles of Ungava directly across the border from its Labrador concession (see map). Hollinger and a U.S. associate, the iron mining firm of M. A. Hanna, agreed to spend upward of $300 million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: QUEBEC: Biggest Since Mesabi? | 2/18/1946 | See Source »

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