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Word: pipers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...California plant. The shortage temporarily takes some of the bloom off the Crosby deal. But Vacuum hopes to step up output enough to fill the new orders Crosby will bring in. And in the scramble for the new market, Vacuum figures that Crosby is just the Pied Piper needed to lure customers away from the old brand names...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: Minute Maid's Man | 10/18/1948 | See Source »

Well, the cover portrait of him is perfect. The Pied Piper motif-oh, drop dead! I'm one of the rats...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 23, 1948 | 8/23/1948 | See Source »

...Democrats in November, were not sure, watching Wallace's political sideshow, just what to make of him. Was he a liberal-or a lollipop? Was he Sir Galahad or, as Westbrook Pegler has savagely dubbed him, an old Bubblehead? Was he a true prophet or a sinister Pied Piper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THIRD PARTIES: Iowa Hybrid | 8/9/1948 | See Source »

...overly literary simile ends right there, however. You don't have to look for a Pied Piper to explain this exodus. All you have to do is leaf through the calendar, and let your eyes light on May 29. What does it suggest...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Vacation Exodus Produces Ghost Town in Cambridge | 5/27/1948 | See Source »

Cornetist Jimmy MacPartland, who sparked the jazz revival in a smoke-filled joint in the Loop called the Brass Rail Theater Bar (TIME, May 5), had moved to a new Loop bar, and taken his followers along, like the Pied Piper of Hamelin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Those Old Faces | 1/19/1948 | See Source »

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