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Word: jims (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chicago, Hudson Dealer Jim Moran offered to transport any customer free from any point in the U.S., pay for his stay in Chicago until his car was delivered. In Detroit, the McMillan Packard agency distributed self-addressed postcards to its old customers, paid them $20 apiece for every tipoff that led to a sale. It looked as if the shakeout in the one big industry not yet affected by the recession might...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ECONOMY: Bouncing Back | 9/12/1949 | See Source »

...Harry Truman appointed him to the counsel staff of his war investigating committee, later made him his personal secretary. Last year Boyle plotted Truman's whistle-stop campaign, insisted on going after what proved to be the decisive farm and labor vote. An Irish-Catholic politician on the Jim Farley pattern, Boyle probably knows more Democratic politicians by their first names than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEMOCRATS: Purges & Picnics | 9/5/1949 | See Source »

During his two years in Buenos Aires, big Jim Bruce had seen U.S.-Argentine relations hit bottom, then start an upward climb. With dogged good will he had brushed aside one anti-U.S. press campaign after another. Perón and Bruce seemed to hit it off well together. Bruce, a millionaire who knew how to run a business, never lost a chance to lecture the President on economics. "Let the Argentine economy alone," he kept repeating. "Don't tinker with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARGENTINA: Buttons & Business | 8/29/1949 | See Source »

...pitcher in either league last year, has been off form; the club's hitting has ranged from spotty to feeble. Last year's cheers had turned to jeers. There were persistent reports of feuds on the club, and tempers were frayed. One story was that Center Fielder Jim Russell and First Baseman Earl Torgeson had socked a couple of critics in a hotel-room brawl; in any case, Russell turned up on the bench with a pair of shiners and Torgeson with an injured thumb...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Headaches | 8/29/1949 | See Source »

Fibber McGee & Molly. The McGees (Jim & Marian Jordan) got their start in vaudeville, but now, Jordan says: "We're not sure we even know how to make an entrance any more. Maybe we old people can't adapt successfully to video." But they will try out for TV in October...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: There'll Be Some Changes | 8/29/1949 | See Source »

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