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Word: offs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Brightest spot is the construction industry. Although it started off slowly this year, building has generated plenty of steam. In June and July, a total of 196,000 new housing units were started, 4,200 more than in the near-record year of 1948.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ECONOMY: Muscle Flexing | 8/29/1949 | See Source »

"There are worse things than a strike. Everybody gets a lot of things off their chests. They say a lot of dirty things and they seem to feel awfully good after it is all over and they are back to work.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STEEL: See? | 8/29/1949 | See Source »

How long will the boom last? Said the trade publication, the Boys' Outfitter: "Parents, sooner or later, are going to resist the Western trend...Johnny and Billy forever in...blue jeans, wearing sombreros in the home, and raising the roof with yipee and hi-ho while popping up and...

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

Faced with the Labor government's plan to take over the sugar industry, Great Britain's biggest sugar company, Tate & Lyle, decided to fight back. On the 2,000,000 cartons of sugar it sells daily, Tate &. Lyle printed: "Keep S Out of State"; "Tate, Not State"; "Untouched...

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

As Roseanna opens, all is quiet on the Hatfield-McCoy front. Over in West Virginia, the hot-tempered, hard-drinking Hatfields are helling about after bear and possum in their own backyard. On the Kentucky side of the Big Sandy River, the hard-working McCoys are peaceably tending their taters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Aug. 29, 1949 | 8/29/1949 | See Source »

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