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Word: offs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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In Los Angeles, Crime Entrepreneur Mickey Cohen (TIME, Aug. 1) went a long way toward proving himself the first U.S. hoodlum with an uncontrollable gift of gab. Instead of preserving a sullen silence when it developed that the cops had been eavesdropping on him through microphones hidden in his house...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: The Human Thing To Do | 8/29/1949 | See Source »

It was, in short, one of those August weeks in which the steam from the soup of day-to-day events gave off a rich, pungent aroma.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: The Human Thing To Do | 8/29/1949 | See Source »

And Heaven Too. Dubinsky's union and its locals are currently worth more than $26 million. Its membership includes 406,000 of the industry's 450,000 workers. Now there are as many Italians as Jews, as older Jewish immigrants have died off, and their children, scorning the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Little David, the Giant | 8/29/1949 | See Source »

Those who didn't sell their crops to the Government benefited by the artificially inflated price in retail markets. One potato farmer salted away $13,160 from a 30-acre farm which cost him only $3,000 ten years ago. Another made $50,000 in four years off his...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FARMERS: Potatoes & Gravy | 8/29/1949 | See Source »

Colored folks in the sad and seedy rooming houses around Talman Avenue and West Washington Boulevard on Chicago's West Side had long since decided what to do about Ernest Craig: call the cops. Craig, a tall 28-year-old Negro with a thin mustache, a hard eye and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Come In an' Git Me! | 8/29/1949 | See Source »

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