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Word: stack (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Altogether, he had a stack a foot high-pictures of Australian girls, native women with nothing above the waist, movie actresses, pin-up girls. He sent this whole stack to his girl with a note: 'I don't remember exactly who you are, but if your picture is among these, please pick it out and send the rest back to me.' '' The men moved to the diner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Way Home | 8/7/1944 | See Source »

...United Nations Monetary and Financial Conference (see U.S. AT WAR) reached an agreement on an "International Monetary Fund" and on an "International Bank for Reconstruction and Development." The Fund is simply an $8.8 billion pot into which each member nation shoves a stack of its own chips. (Since there are not enough gold chips to go around, each player in international trade-unlike poker-has to use some of his own chips, valuable only in his own home.) The purpose of the pot is to enable any player, who temporarily needs the chips of an other, to shove in more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Shock Absorbers | 7/31/1944 | See Source »

Balletomane de Cuevas' initial stack amounted to $250,000, for which he got a lease on a Broadway theater and a troupe of dancers known as the Ballet Institute. He has drawn up plans for eight new ballets, scheduled a Manhattan season to open "some time in September...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Ballet de Rockefeller | 7/3/1944 | See Source »

...arrival back in port after the operation I found a stack of four or five TIMES waiting for me. Roberts and I started going through them. Pretty soon he looked at me with a bright light in his eye. He had been reading the particular edition of TIME that told of the operation. 'So help me,' he happily exclaimed, 'this is the first time I've known what the hell went on out there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 29, 1944 | 5/29/1944 | See Source »

...free lunches and a circus barker's side show. Joe Day revolutionized the business by 1) investigating and advertising his properties in advance; 2) discovering that a one-man side show by a man who knew his business sold more lots than all the free china he could stack...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Great Salesman | 4/24/1944 | See Source »

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