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Word: tenants (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Salmon's next duty station was aboard the light cruiser USS Detroit (3) where he served until assigned to the NSCS as an instructor in Supply in March of this year. Lieutenant Salmon has seen considerable action, including participation in the Battle of the Coral Sea. The lies tenant is married and has a daughter aged...

Author: By Wheaton LA Flange and Murgatroyd Laverne, S | Title: DOPE | 10/8/1943 | See Source »

...lexicon of Brillat-Savarin, world-renowned gourmet, there is no such word as grits,* But in the U.S. South, from plantation mansion to tenant shack, grits has been part of a way of life for generations. Many Southerners eat grits with every meal, few understand why Yankees find it insipid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE SOUTH: It's a Long Time between Grits | 9/6/1943 | See Source »

Sadist as well as sleuth, the landlord suavely tortures his tenant for two and a half acts, until finally each gets the drop on the other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Play in Manhattan, Aug. 30, 1943 | 8/30/1943 | See Source »

With no capital, the two promoters found 18 tenants: an avocado grower, a man who sold sherry from a barrel, a florist, a rabbit raiser, more than a dozen farmers. Beck & Dahlhjelm got lumber and awnings on credit, built their own stalls, to rent for 50? each a day. They persuaded a millionaire oil producer, Earl Gilmore, to let them use a vacant plot he owned in the Wilshire residential district. Beck wrote radio ads, got them broadcast over KNX on credit. They were directed at farmers ("don't bother to bring us anything but the best"), but shrewdly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ADVERTISING: Big-Time Belittling | 8/23/1943 | See Source »

...does this State glorify the native-born workers who are in reality nothing short of tenant farmers so wonderfully portrayed in Tobacco Road? It is these very workers who are the target of Southern discrimination because of color and breeding. Why, therefore, does the State of North Carolina picture these products of feudal serfdom as glorious, happy Americans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 5, 1943 | 7/5/1943 | See Source »

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