Word: tab
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Manhattan's adless tab, which bragged in June that it had spent a whole year in the black, backslid a fortnight ago into...
...some Ruml plans of its own, and was giving him a chance to operate on a far broader scale than he could as treasurer. Even within these limits, Ruml has already thought up several plans for Macy's. Best known is his "Q-system" of accounting, which keeps tab on individual department gains, thus makes each department compete with every other...
...time would have a clearing house to tie to gether all agencies' intelligence work. It could have used one before Pearl Harbor, when global gumshoeing was a fine art among other powers. (Britain's S.I.S.- -Secret Intelligence Service - and its pre cursors had helped the Crown keep tab on good & bad neighbors for nearly 400 years.) Three decades of intensive globetrotting, politicking and lawyering had prepared General Donovan for the job he did in setting up the U.S. in world espionage. One generation removed from County Cork, he was the mild-mannered, studious type, got his antonymous nickname...
...stepped down onto U.S. soil agleam with 24 stars, variously placed, all glittering: four on his shiny steel helmet, four on each shoulder loop, four on each collar tab, and four on the black butt of the automatic pistol at his hip. On the side of his helmet was the painted insigne of the armored divisions; on the front, below the stars, was the Third Army's "A"-which, in photographs, looked like a fifth star. On his chest was a quintuple corsage of campaign ribbons; on his left sleeve, five overseas bars and four wound chevrons. He wore...
...Phoenix's jointly-owned Arizona-Republic and Gazette dropped to tabloid size on Tuesdays and Saturdays, to save enough paper to be standard-sized the rest of the week. The tab editions will carry no display ads except for movies and churches...