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Word: offs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Empty Shelves. The nation's department store sales were well below 1948 (off 11% for the week ending July 30). But some of the drop seemed to be the retailers' own fault. The Wall Street Journal took a shopping tour of 15 cities and found that many a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Spotty | 8/15/1949 | See Source »

The difference was a little black box with a face like a parking meter's and a slot like a piggy bank's. Called the Meter-Matic, it is similar to pay-as-you-go meters used during the depression, then discarded when money began growing on trees...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SELLING: A Quarter a Day | 8/15/1949 | See Source »

The subcommittee found no reason why service stores should be exempt from excise taxes, ordered the stores to start collecting the tax. It also ordered the armed services to: 1) abolish all commissaries by Jan. 1, wherever adequate civilian facilities are available; 2) cut out all special orders; 3) keep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RETAIL TRADE: PX Pruning | 8/15/1949 | See Source »

Nothing that reached the screen last week seemed nearly so exciting to cinemagoers as the off-screen crisis in the life & love of one of the cinema's top-ranking stars. In an announcement from Rome, Actress Ingrid Bergman, drawn and upset, told the world that she was quitting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Off the Pedestal | 8/15/1949 | See Source »

Ingrid had teetered on her celluloid pedestal last spring when headlines carried reports of a superheated romance with Italian Cinemaster Roberto (Paisan, Open City] Rossellini. Ingrid's husband, Swedish Dr. Peter Lindstrom, rushed to see the pair in Italy. Ingrid and Rossellini stopped work on a movie and went...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Off the Pedestal | 8/15/1949 | See Source »

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