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Word: gair (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Until he could get going again, such competitors as Robert Gair Co., Seaboard Container and Fiberboard Products offered to help Connelly keep his business by filling his orders. Soon his trucks, which had not been damaged, were picking up boxes made by competitors and stamped with his name, and delivering them to his customers. Connelly found the empty 25-acre plant of a closed down iron foundry just outside the city limits, and bought it for $500,000. Thirteen labor unions got their members to work round the clock to rush it into shape. But he still needed machinery. Machinery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Helping Hands | 3/16/1953 | See Source »

...pennant of baseball's 1949 world champions was missing from the Yankee Stadium last week. A speakers' stand stretched across the infield, and huge posters plastered the stadium, bearing messages like Saarnaa Sanaa and Pregetha y gair. They all meant the same thing: "Preach the Word" (II Tim. 4:2). Beneath this slogan, spelled out in 77 tongues, some 77,000 hot, hungry and happy Jehovah's Witnesses had gathered together from 48 states and 68 nations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Waiting for Armageddon | 8/14/1950 | See Source »

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