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Word: jacks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...usual John Chase will be at goal, and Jack Carman, Algie Allen, Dusty Burke, and Bill Bliss will be at defense...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sextet Plays BC at Arena Tonight | 12/20/1949 | See Source »

...JACK H. MANLEY Charles Town, W.Va...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 19, 1949 | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

...JACK COLWELL...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 19, 1949 | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

...Down, One to Go. Dearest to Chifley's heart was a drive to nationalize banks. Private bankers, cried he, had greedily levied up to 8% interest on loans. Then a rebel Labor politico in Sydney, "Big Jack" Lang, charged sensationally that Chifley himself once lent money at rates up to 9%. Labor's embarrassed leader said it was true-only he had invested the money for proletarian friends and neighbors, taken nothing for himself. At his final rally, shirtsleeved Premier Chifley mixed with former railway cronies, reminded hard-drinking Australians how Labor had relaxed the closing time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUSTRALIA: The Golden Age Express | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

...salesmen, Cummings thinks too many of them wander aimlessly in & out of stores, just making calls and taking orders. Cummings thought that salesmen should work harder to expand a grocer's business, and cited an example to show that it could be done. In a Jack Sprat store in Ames, Iowa, he gave a customer a taste of a can of peas, succeeded in selling her an entire case instead of only one can. He persuaded a grocer on Manhattan's Third Avenue to keep a list of daily "specials" next to the telephone so that clerks taking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SELLING: Meet the Boss | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

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