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Word: offs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Since war's end, many an impatient squawk has been sounded against the U.S. Military Government for failing to do "something" about Germany's cartels -though hardly anybody knew what the something should be. Last winter, a civilian committee headed by Federal Trade Commissioner Garland Ferguson trotted off...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CARTELS: On the Block | 6/27/1949 | See Source »

Lucky Joe. In the Rio Grande cotton country, the first bolls of the new crop were ripe and the annual "first bale" race was on. Near Me Allen, Tex., young (27) Joe Acosta directed the 150 pickers on the 1,600 acres he tenant-farms, while he kept in touch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATE OF BUSINESS: Facts & Figures, Jun. 27, 1949 | 6/27/1949 | See Source »

"Isn't it true," complained Writer-Director Joseph (A Letter to Three Wives) Mankiewicz, "that a real-estate operator whose chief concern should be taking gum off carpets and checking adolescent love-making in the balcony-isn't it true that this man is in control [of] ... the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Supply & Demand | 6/27/1949 | See Source »

Died. Charles B. Moran, 70, longtime (1916-39) National League baseball umpire ("It ain't nothing until I call it"); of a heart ailment; in Horse Cave, Ky. A onetime big-league ballplayer (he pitched and caught for the Cardinals, 1903-08), colorful, rasp-voiced "Uncle Charley" spent his...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jun. 27, 1949 | 6/27/1949 | See Source »

Hollywood, wanderlusting after fresh backgrounds and a chance to use up blocked foreign funds, keeps packing star off to location all around the globe (TIME June 6). Its No. 1 production colony England, which offers plenty of technical resources and no language bar. This week a leading British film critic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Darned Near Dead | 6/27/1949 | See Source »

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