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Word: greys (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...beyond belief. You realize, swiftly, that they are not the friendly, ordinary men they pretended to be all along. . . . The bland face of the short, portly man in front-obviously the leader-has become set, purposeful, inscrutable, and his hand is all at once in the pocket of his grey suitcoat. The faces of his henchmen, grouped carelessly around him, convey the same ominous mood. . . . They stand there, waiting, and their purpose is clear. You want desperately to call for help, but you know it's no use. The house is empty, the yards and streets are deserted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 19, 1948 | 4/19/1948 | See Source »

Harvard men may keep their grey flannels well pressed, but the job keeps half a dozen pocket-cleaners in Square valeterias on edge...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Laundries Search Pockets, Find Gold Teeth, Lipstick | 4/13/1948 | See Source »

...White, Inc., if it would also pay $875,000 for 28,000 radios. Clark & White accepted the proposition - and lost $580,000 on the radios; it sold them for $295,000. But it made up the loss handily - and $461,120 to boot - by selling the steel in the grey market...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Around the Grapevine | 4/12/1948 | See Source »

...committee found that Kaiser-Frazer had also filtered some of Detrola's steel into the grey market. As K-F could not use some of the types it got from Detrola, K-F Vice President Clay Bedford told the committee, he made a deal with a Manhattan exporter named Charles A. Koons to sell Koons 4,000 tons of Detrola steel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Around the Grapevine | 4/12/1948 | See Source »

...experiments with car bodies. Koons told the committee he lost $500,000 on sale of the tie-in junk. But, through his steel, he netted a $14,000 final profit on the whole deal. The committee got an eye-opening account of how fast steel gets around in the grey market and how fast the price goes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Around the Grapevine | 4/12/1948 | See Source »

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