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Word: masses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...proudly displayed Fire Prevention Week signs, urging citizens to "keep your home burning." Habit. In Baltimore, Arthur Jackson left home and a bitter farewell note to his wife explaining that he was sick & tired of her and the four children, signed himself "your loving husband." Defeat. In Malden, Mass., C. Edmund Snook resigned as executive secretary of the Northeast Essex housing development council, explained that he couldn't find a place to live...

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

Attracted by gravitation, they flash down to the center of the star, releasing enormous energy. The reaction may spread in a short time through most of the mass of the star. The energy released is enough to blow off the star's outer layer. All that remains, according to this theory, is a small, dense core of neutrons and a vast shell of flaming gas that burns itself out in a few months of splendor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Two Million Suns | 7/19/1948 | See Source »

Colored Pins. Last Sunday's sale was another triumph for Liberty's special brand of mass production plus carnival barking. For weeks desperate couples had besieged Sales Manager Joseph Chernus, a serious, slight ex-phonograph salesman and ex-G.I. But he stalled them off, told them to come back on land-rush...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Liberty Houses | 7/19/1948 | See Source »

...dealings. They joined forces right after the war when house building looked like a sure bet. For months they combed the state for building materials, stockpiling it in warehouses. Their first development, 37 duplexes and 64 three-bedroom houses, sold so fast that they decided to step up their mass production technique...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Liberty Houses | 7/19/1948 | See Source »

...original Fuller Brush man is kindly, dignified Arthur C. Fuller, 62, who parlayed a basement shop in Somerville, Mass. into a national institution. Fuller made his brushes by night, sold them by day. In 1906 he moved to Hartford, got a helper. When retail stores refused to handle his brushes, he got his first salesmen. He has taken a paternal interest in them ever since; all his district managers are former salesmen. When son Howard left college (Harvard and Duke), he peddled brushes for a year to learn the business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Fuller's Fillies | 7/12/1948 | See Source »

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