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Word: hells (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bouncing out of the wings and turning on his Missouri accent, he had gotten off a rousing, "give-'em-hell" speech, designed for the farmer-labor combination that had elected him last November. The audience at the Allegheny County Fair was tailor-made-farmers from the countryside, steelworkers from Pittsburgh's mills. "Farmers and industrial workers . . . depend on each other," he told them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Old Act, New Lines | 9/19/1949 | See Source »

...roses and dozens of other bouquets around the room were a tribute to Wilson's first half-century in what G.E. calls its "family." Fifty years ago, at the age of twelve, young Charlie Wilson had come out of the slums of Manhattan's Hell's Kitchen to take a $3-a-week office boy's job with a company that later became part of G.E. Now it was Wilson's turn to get the same small, 50-year button that, as president, he had pinned on so many other G.E. oldtimers. Last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: Tell 'Em | 9/12/1949 | See Source »

Charles 6. ("Hell 'n Maria") Dawes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Happy Birthday | 9/5/1949 | See Source »

Since the farmer seldom comes to Wall Street, the firm of Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Beane has decided to bring Wall Street to the farmer.- Explained Merrill Lynch's Des Moines manager Mike Dearth: "The farmer has made a hell of a lot of dough in the last few years. It ought to be put to work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WALL STREET: Farmer's Market | 9/5/1949 | See Source »

...roast Jap. He was frequently near death from malaria, and he left the jungle in August 1945, with a complexion the color of his jungle-green uniform. But before the month was over, he volunteered to go back on a military mission and was parachuted back into his "green hell" for another two months...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Green Hell | 9/5/1949 | See Source »

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