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Word: neb (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Omaha, Neb...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 26, 1942 | 10/26/1942 | See Source »

Sleeveless Errand. Near Chadron, Neb., a truck sideswiped another truck, sheared an arm off Truckman Ross Thompson, who searched for it along the road awhile, finally drove into town, stopped, fainted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Oct. 19, 1942 | 10/19/1942 | See Source »

...President. . . ." Bulky Bill Jeffers (5 ft. 11 in., 220 lb.) knows nothing about rubber but knows a lot about railroading, his only interest for 53 of his 66 years. His Irish immigrant father, William J. Jeffers, was earning $55 a month in the Union Pacific shops in North Platte, Neb. when Bill (one of nine children) was born. Bill finished a year of high school and went to work as a U.P. call boy at $5 a week (for seven days' work at up to twelve hours a day). "I can't remember when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U. P. Snowplow | 9/28/1942 | See Source »

Gifts. In Osceola, Neb., county fair officials offered a free permanent wave to the champion woman chicken-raiser, a free haircut to the man who bought the most bonds. Winners: curly-haired Addie Carter, bald Al Nicklaus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Aug. 31, 1942 | 8/31/1942 | See Source »

Eimer H. Taylor, Frederick, Ill.; Richard N. Thomas, Omaha, Neb.; Loster H. Tobin, Linu; George W. Varn 2d, Jacksonville, Fla.; High G. Voorhies, Jr., San Diego, Calif.; Norman M. Wallack, Derchester; Harry H. Wdise, Jr., South Bend, Ind.; David B. Williams, Bronxville, N. Y.; and Richard Wincor, New York City...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Phi Beta Kappa- | 6/11/1942 | See Source »

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