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Word: licensee (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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He slipped a revolver into his coat pocket, took a train to Oakland, and wandered along sidewalks until he found a car with the ignition key in the lock. He got in, drove away, stole a different set of license plates and put them on the stolen car. Then he...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Dead End | 8/16/1948 | See Source »

Last week the sobersided Department of Commerce explained: "For some time . . . evidence had been accumulating . . . that abnormally large shipments of water closets were moving into export channels." Commerce had discovered that exporters seemed to be shipping more cast-iron water closets (which require no export license) than manufacturers were making...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOVERNMENT: Out of Order | 8/16/1948 | See Source »

"I'll Take Care of Him." The next evening Johnny West began asserting himself. He forced a sedan to the side of the road in the hope of getting false identification and a new getaway car. He leaped out, looked in at a man and woman, said: "You'...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Punks | 8/2/1948 | See Source »

Home Ties. In Huntsville, Tex., Convict Levurt Whitehurst, who had escaped from a state prison home, checked back in, explaining, "I went to see my grandma." The Book. In Brooklyn, Joseph Attilio, who made the mistake of denting the fender of a car belonging to Patrolman Edward Baldini, was charged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jul. 19, 1948 | 7/19/1948 | See Source »

"We need Thy help to do something about the world's true problems-the problem of lying, which is called propaganda; the problem of selfishness, which is called self-interest; the problem of greed, which is often called profit; the problem of license, disguising itself as liberty; the problem...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Ends & Means | 7/12/1948 | See Source »

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