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Word: secretly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Face. There were, he continued, three uncontradicted facts: 1) that Chambers had in his possession copies of secret State Department documents; 2) that these documents were all dated in the first three months of 1938; 3) that all but one of the typed documents were copied on the Hiss typewriter. With all "that country bumpkin stuff," the defense attorney had refuted none of these points...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE JUDICIARY: Weeds, Roses & Jam | 7/18/1949 | See Source »

...month ago, Cripps revealed, he had issued a secret order stopping all new dollar purchases. It would stay in effect at least three months. A further period of "restraint and restriction" might lie ahead; that could well mean less food and tobacco from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ECONOMICS: Dollars & Dockers | 7/18/1949 | See Source »

...like many Zionists, he fought in the British army against the Axis, rose to be a major. When the war with the Arabs broke out, Tobiansky, with the full approval of Haganah, kept his civilian job in the British electric light company in Jerusalem. He also commanded a secret Haganah airbase outside the city. He was a quiet man with a slight paunch, who liked to sit in Jerusalem's Cafe Vienna with his wife and some friends, sipping beer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ISRAEL: Son of Goodness | 7/18/1949 | See Source »

...potential television market? One year ago, a Manhattan advertising agency, Newell-Emmett Co., picked a middle-sized city about 40 miles from Manhattan, dubbed it "Videotown" to keep its identity a secret, began keeping tab on the buying habits of its 40,000 citizens...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ADVERTISING: Videotown | 7/18/1949 | See Source »

...they had paid $17 each for the suits they had on hand. President Ward gave them ten days to clear out their old stocks at the old prices. But one retailer made the mistake of letting the apparel trade's Daily News Record in on the secret. News services spotted the trade-paper item and spread the good news to bargain-hungry U.S. consumers. Result: Goodall's retailers could no longer find anyone foolish enough to pay $27.50 for a Palm Beach, had to put the new low price into effect right away at little more than they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RETAIL TRADE: Storm Over Palm Beach | 7/18/1949 | See Source »

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