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Word: plows (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Because she appears more frequently than the other players, Ginger Rogers at tracts the most attention, as a super-tense film celebrity whose, fame & fortune has brought her nothing but loneliness. But there are half a dozen other competent performers who plow their way through this three-day ordeal in the rooms and corridors of Manhattan's famed Waldorf-Astoria Hotel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Oct. 22, 1945 | 10/22/1945 | See Source »

Actually, Willys-Overland had never made claims that the jeep would replace the tractor. But it had pointed out that a jeep could be mighty handy around a farm to pull a plow or harrow, run a saw or threshing machine, drill post holes and also take the farmer and his family to town. As to price, the jeep-makers had never predicted any lower than $900 (in vast quantities the Army paid $875 apiece...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FARMING: The Price of a Jeep | 8/13/1945 | See Source »

...farmer's car-of -all-trades, the new jeep can pull a plow, harrow or load of hay; by means of a power take-off at the rear it can run a saw, threshing machine, or drill post holes. Slicked up, with top, side curtains, and comfortable seats, it can carry farmer & family to town. Willys expects to make 20,000 civilian jeeps this year, expects to sell them in the neighborhood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR ECONOMY: Facts & Figures, Jul. 30, 1945 | 7/30/1945 | See Source »

After a whirlwind trip to Europe, Robert Houghwout (rhymes with plow it) Jackson last week summarized the U.S. policy on war crimes. Its salient features (promptly approved by President Truman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLICIES & PRINCIPLES: To Suit the Case | 6/18/1945 | See Source »

...Plow-chinned Chester Bowles, boss of OPA, showed himself a unique bureaucrat: he publicly admitted that he had made a serious mistake-in fact...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOARDS & BUREAUS: We Were Wrong | 1/15/1945 | See Source »

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