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Word: putting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tanguay, he remembered. And he used to be an usher every Saturday afternoon at the Grand and see the shows free. "Where was the Grand?" a Kansas City Star reporter asked. Down at Seventh and Walnut, said Truman. "Gosh," said the reporter, "we'll have to put up a plaque there tomorrow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Old Act, New Lines | 9/19/1949 | See Source »

When Thomas returned to his office last week, one of his first callers was Deputy Secretary of Defense Stephen Early. After a long and earnest conversation, peace was declared. Johnson issued a formal statement which put Congressmen and federal officials on their honor to use military aircraft only for trips in the "national interest." Definition of national interest was largely left to the conscience of the officeholder and his boss. Cooed Elmer Thomas: "I commend Secretary Johnson for his decision...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMED FORCES: The High Fly | 9/19/1949 | See Source »

Golfer King, 33, who put out Turnesa, owns a 2,300-acre cattle and dairy ranch near Wichita Falls, Tex., is a deacon in the Baptist church, and describes himself as a "weekend" golfer. He flew his private plane to Rochester expecting to watch more golf than he played. Long before the finals, he was taking bismuth tablets to quiet the butterflies in his stomach. He had never been so close to a major golf title in his life, although he had accomplished the almost incredible feat of winning the Grand American trapshooting championship...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Upset at Rochester | 9/12/1949 | See Source »

...stock. He risked the major part ($26,000) of Tracerlab's first capital and started making an "Autoscaler," a highly sensitive machine for hospitals and laboratories to measure radioactivity. Tracerlab also began marketing elements which had been made radioactive by insertion in the Oak Ridge atomic pile. Tracerlab put these radioactive isotopes in usable chemical forms for hospitals and laboratories...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Atomic Offspring | 9/12/1949 | See Source »

When the company began to run out of money, Barbour found an angel in American Research & Development Corp., a venture-capital group of hardheaded New England businessmen (TIME, Aug. 19, 1946). With $150,000 of American Research's money, and the stock issue, Tracerlab was put on firm footing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Atomic Offspring | 9/12/1949 | See Source »

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