Word: odd
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...only TIME writers, but TIME'S late hours and odd editorial work week (we go to press on Monday, take Tuesday & Wednesday off) are special problems for our researchers. They can't sleep late Sundays, have trouble getting to church, worry about their boy friends taking other girls out on Saturdays and Sundays, often have to ride the milk train to the suburbs. Says one, with some asperity: "The butcher closes promptly at six and I am never there...
Wyatt then added 50 more items to the 30-odd already on the housing priorities list. Sample additions: stoves, refrigerators, linoleum, sheet steel, putty. He persuaded the Department of Commerce to extend its control over exports of building materials. He let it be known that new limitations might be placed on nonresidential construction...
...South it was the rockets, and more than brännvin was needed to counteract them. Since last May, swarms of spool-shaped, silent missiles with fiery tails have been zooming over Swedish territory at 875 m.p.h. (500-odd reports described some as slower and cigar-shaped, others as square and red-bottomed...
Last week Hearst's King Features Syndicate bought a Cassini society column, but it was not Igor's. The author: pretty, pouty Austine ("Bootsie") Cassini, Igor's 26-year-old wife. The title: Washington Whirl, to run thrice weekly in 100-odd papers, as a hodgepodge of capital chitchat, politics and favorite embassy recipes...
Lawed from the Beat. Reporters or papers that won't play ball are turned down for membership, are then denied admission to press conferences because they don't "belong." All but one or two of Japan's 50-odd new postwar papers have been kept out. Jiji, Japan's second-biggest news agency, with membership in only two clubs, has to feed its clients unofficial, secondhand yarns...