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Word: overlies (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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"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 »

Typical of the mushrooming new industry is Tennessee's Boot-ster Manufacturing Co. It puts out a plastic spatlike gadget that fits over a boy's shoe, thus "makes any shoe a cowboy boot." J. Z. Miller, part owner of two small department stores, got the idea for...

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 »

The trouble, said K-F, had been high-cost inventories, high overhead, price cuts, and a strike at Bendix Aviation Corp. which had stopped K-F production for two weeks. But K-F's real trouble was that the auto shortage was about over, and its share of the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: As Predicted | 8/29/1949 | See Source »

Last week Langs confessed: "I don't know anything about merchandising. It will take a big outfit to market this properly." If the right company answered the ad, Langs said he might turn over the gadget and just take a royalty.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SMALL BUSINESS: Too Big to Handle | 8/29/1949 | See Source »

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