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Word: making (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...indications and promises of a good future. In such a commonplace as a yam, science was finding new hope for the ill (see MEDICINE). There were also new comforts to living. There was a 24-lb. sewing machine on the market which not only could stitch but could embroider, make buttonholes and darn socks. There was an announcement that the New York Central would soon have ready for wilting and near-sighted New York commuters 100 air-conditioned cars with fluorescent lighting and improved couplings to soften the shock of frequent stopping & starting. The rubber companies were testing an automobile...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: The Right to Cheer | 9/5/1949 | See Source »

...young lady asked me if in five years she might be an ambassador," he told them, "I couldn't make her any promises because that is a year or two beyond the time when my term will expire." But he told them to keep informed on the Government, and one of them might even have "this terrible job which I have . . . and you might get a chance to live over there in that great white jail, with the balcony and everything...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: This Terrible Job | 9/5/1949 | See Source »

...Drop the Handkerchief." From the beginning of the session, complained Majority Leader Scott Lucas, "I learned that not much speed could be made by trying to make haste, and that we must let nature take its course in the Senate." Well, the Democrats had a 54-member majority in the Senate, didn't they, asked Indiana's Homer Capehart. Why didn't they get down to business instead of "playing politics, fooling the American people, and playing drop the handkerchief...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Year-Round Job | 9/5/1949 | See Source »

Retailers have also plugged cowboy stuff to the hilt. As one said: "Cowboy things used to be considered just toys. But we've been smart enough to take them out of the toy class and make many of the items necessities for many kids. Now they wear blue jeans and Levi's to school, even in New York." Brooklyn's Abraham & Straus has set up a special cowboy section; Philadelphia's Lit Brothers has a "Western Trading Post." And retailers have egged on manufacturers to add new "cowboy" items. The latest item on the list...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Moppets' Stampede | 8/29/1949 | See Source »

With that assurance, Tate &. Lyle went ahead with a new slogan to bedevil the Labor government. Beginning this week, its packages will carry a cartoon showing "Mr. Cube" pointing to sugar pouring from a gaping hole in a sugar box. The caption: "Nationalization will make a hole in your pocket and a hole in my packet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ADVERTISING: Sugar Slogans | 8/29/1949 | See Source »

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