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Word: fronte (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thanks to Taft, Republicans could not be accused of having done absolutely nothing on the inflation front...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Exit Gyrating | 12/29/1947 | See Source »

...autoworkers' Walter Reuther wanted a price roll-back,* but did not expect to get it. In Washington last week, Reuther said: "What we're after is not dollars but purchasing power. If industry and Congress keep on failing to reduce prices, we will fight on the only front open to us-wages...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: No. 3 | 12/29/1947 | See Source »

...went on we entered a stretch of no man's land, a wide swatch of deserted houses left by Arabs and Jews who had lived side by side. The streets in front of these houses were littered with the debris of terror-old shoes, a battered wide-brimmed felt hat of an Orthodox Jew, an old scarf. One house's door hung slantwise on a twisted hinge, as though its occupants had plunged wildly through it in mad haste. On the rooftops were British sentries with Bren guns. Also to be seen were rooftop Jewish guards-young Haganah...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PALESTINE: Dead City | 12/29/1947 | See Source »

...lights of outdoor Christmas trees-from the 65-ft. Norway spruce in Manhattan's Rockefeller Center (see cut) to front-yard evergreens in ten thousand U.S. cities and towns-began to glow and glimmer brightly in the night...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Americana, Dec. 22, 1947 | 12/22/1947 | See Source »

...powerful, primitive singing of its huge (203 voices) Echoes of Eden choir had been bringing in new members to Los Angeles' stuccoed St. Paul Baptist Church at the rate of 18 a day. It now takes five cops to control Sunday crowds that jam the street out in front to listen over a loudspeaker (and six nurses inside for worshipers who get too wrought-up). The choir's weekly radio program is broadcast to 17 states. Two months ago Capitol Records began putting the choir...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: We Sing to Lift | 12/22/1947 | See Source »

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