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Word: offs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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From $1.90 in early August the price soared to $3.93 on Sept. i, then slipped off to $2.69. Last week it bounced back up under brisk bidding to $3.25. Nor was the end of the boom in sight. Onions usually start coming into the market for delivery n November. But...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMODITIES: The Onion Boom | 9/26/1949 | See Source »

The legislation touched off a chorus of howls. Since most of the stations sell three brands of gas, the changes would clutter up the signs so much that the "5? off" come-on would be lost in the welter of neon. Charged Hugh D. Lacy, who heads an association of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OIL: Out of Gas? | 9/26/1949 | See Source »

The nastiness is touched off when a poor little orphan (Margaret O'Brien) goes to live with her rich, half-mad uncle (Herbert Marshall). An officious, adder-tongued little minx who detests practically everyone she meets, Margaret soon meets her match. Her crippled cousin (Dean Stockwell) turns out to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Sep. 26, 1949 | 9/26/1949 | See Source »

Arnold never flew a plane to combat. In World War I he became the youngest colonel in the U.S. Army and the second-ranking air officer, but he was kept in Washington. His account of those years is the familiar one of War Department myopia, never enough and that too...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Crate to Superfort | 9/26/1949 | See Source »

In place of a plot, The Lonely has a situation. Flak-happy Liberator Pilot Jerry Wright takes a two-week leave from his air base in England and goes off to Scotland with Patches, a mousy, grey-eyed little WAAF. After a week of shacking up in the Loch Lomond...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Why? | 9/26/1949 | See Source »

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