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Word: sheetings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week Curtis got off the wagon and for the first time decided to accept liquor ads, but only in 20-month-old Holiday. It has a different kind of readership from its more sedate Curtis sisters-and a different-looking balance sheet. Said President Fuller: "To add this new classification . . . will increase Holiday's serviceability both to its advertisers and readers." It might also help Curtis put money-losing Holiday in the black...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: What'll It Be, Gents? | 10/13/1947 | See Source »

While noting that the sheet is "not designed to serve as a notice of club meetings," Charles Lipton '48, PBH president, called on all College organizations to supply information on "events that will be of interest to a sizable proportion of University students...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PBH Will Publish New Pamphlet on Amusements from Bach to Bacchus | 10/10/1947 | See Source »

...committee is being formed at PBH to scavenge for uncharted entertainment media, and to prepare the new guide. At present Fred R. Manly '47 is directing publication of the sheet...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PBH Will Publish New Pamphlet on Amusements from Bach to Bacchus | 10/10/1947 | See Source »

...billion program which would increase capacity by 2,500.000 tons by the end of 1948. Same day, Jones & Laughlin announced a large mine-development program "in order to produce more and better steel"; Columbia Steel, a Big Steel subsidiary, announced plans for a 300,000-ton-a-year sheet-steel mill near Los Angeles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Turnabout | 9/22/1947 | See Source »

Roosevelt was not only surrounded by Secret Service but often preceded by Geiger counters (to determine the possible presence of radioactivity) and usually shielded by a special speakers' stand which, when a button was pressed, threw up a sheet of armored steel. Says Agent Reilly: "I lived in horror of the day an Agent would accidentally press the remote control button and F.D.R. would find himself talking to a piece of steel where a moment before he had been addressing thousands of people. He wouldn't have been amused; there were very few things F.D.R. enjoyed more than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Presidential Detail | 9/15/1947 | See Source »

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