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Word: segments (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...individuals, the garment workers are the most disputatious, diverse, and in some ways the most innately disrespectful of authority of any segment in all U.S. labor. But they have a boss who is much more than a boss. To them, busy, bumptious little David Dubinsky is leader, father, prophet and demigod. To his I.L.G.W.U., they display furious devotion. It is a school, a welfare clinic, a social life and a political mentor. It is, as some of them say, a way of life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Little David, the Giant | 8/29/1949 | See Source »

Okefenokee Bear. Among the 900 guests that showed up one night last week were all the members of the Cabinet except Secretary of State Dean Acheson, a large segment of the Congress, almost all of the foreign ambassadors and three or four generals and admirals. Frank was at the barroom door to greet them. "Hello, partner," bellowed Boykin. "Everything's made for love." The guests dug in. First there was a little buffet Frank had scraped together from his 100,000-acre hunting preserve in Choctaw County, Ala. and Deep Freeze lockers down home in Mobile -salmon from Quebec...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CAPITAL: Love Feast | 8/15/1949 | See Source »

There are still some drawbacks. The big commission charged at the original purchase usually eats up the first two years' dividends. And as funds are usually invested in a wide segment of the market, they must inevitably depreciate when the market as a whole is going down. Thus, most investment companies will be just as healthy, in the long run, as the total U.S. economy. Their biggest virtue is that they are giving more & more small investors (stockholders now exceed 1,000,000) a widespread stake in that economy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INVESTMENTS: How to Keep a Buck | 7/11/1949 | See Source »

...offensive segment of the Columbia attack is led by Adam Rakowski, who set a new Lion batting mark of .467 last year. He hit safely in 24 straight games over a three-year span, until Yale stopped him Wednesday. Charlie Klemovich doesn't meet the ball often, but when he does it usually goes for long distances. He has hit two homers this season...

Author: By Peter B. Taub, | Title: Nine Battles Columbia Here Today in Crucial EIBL Test | 5/7/1949 | See Source »

...apparently loves the National Student Association. At any rate, it gives NSA over $1000 a year to maintain rapport with student organizations all over the nation and to whip up schemes like the DP program and the purchase card plan. Whether it likes the idea or not--and a segment of the paying population inevitably doesn't--Harvard is securely wedded...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 8 Delegates 8 | 3/23/1949 | See Source »

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