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Word: hearses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Commercial Control. A gadget to protect radio listeners from commercials was put on sale by Los Angeles' Gray Development Corp. The gadget plugs in at the radio's electric outlet and has a ten-foot cord leading to two pushbuttons. When the armchair listener hears a singing commercial...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FACTS & FIGURES: Quiet, Please | 5/26/1947 | See Source »

What to look for is uranium's radioactivity. The best loker is the portable Geiger counter, which finds uranium under the ground as a hog smells out truffles. The prospector carries it over the hills, poking into crevices. In his earphones he hears a few clicks stirred up by...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: How to Find Uranium | 4/21/1947 | See Source »

I don't know what you're waiting for, but if Stalin hears of this, he'll beat you to it. I'd like to sic some Dutch sculptors onto it but it really is a job for Americans. Wake up, Yanks, get wise to yourselves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: History & a Legacy | 3/31/1947 | See Source »

That is the harmony the public hears. But there are other, behind-the-scene noises that go to make up that harmony. They are the clashes of musical temperament, the clanging demands of the cash register, the murmurings of directors and managers. A successful conductor has to make a harmony...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Master Builder | 2/17/1947 | See Source »

Thus, this nation finds itself in an embarrassing situation on the issue of UN trusteeships of non-self-governing areas, the details of which program incidentally was chiefly of American origin. Adamantly refusing to surrender to anyone the banner of all-out support of the UN and its principles, the...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Untrustworthy? | 1/14/1947 | See Source »

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