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Word: theys (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fuller Shelves. Many retailers had already cleaned up their inventories too thoroughly. Last week they were busily restocking. After ten months of successive decline, U.S. retail inventories had jumped a tidy $500 million in September. There was still a tremendous amount of pent-up buying power. Disposable income had risen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: No Bones Broken | 11/21/1949 | See Source »

"Why are they monkeying with the A & P?" asked the Wayne Public Market of Wayne, Mich. "A & P is one of the leaders in holding food costs down . . . We regard this threat ... as a threat to us." Groceryman Paul Simpson, who learned his trade behind an A & P counter before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ADVERTISING: Love That Supermarket | 11/21/1949 | See Source »

When Pratt Segmiller isn't running a filling station in Marysvale (pop. 600), Utah, he hunts rocks. One day, while prospecting around the sage and cedar-covered mountains northeast of Marysvale, he found some strange yellow-colored rocks strewn over a surface of about 60 acres. Segmiller thought they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MINING: The Yellow Rocks | 11/21/1949 | See Source »

In Washington last week a customer bustled up to a counter in Magruder, Inc. and tried to buy 96 Ibs. of coffee. She was told she could buy only one 24-lb. case of Ib. tins. In many another U.S. city, hoarding housewives, having heard rumors of $1 a Ib...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMODITIES: Coffee Pot Tempest | 11/21/1949 | See Source »

When two U.S. doctors went to Germany last summer to check on reports that a new chemical was showing promise in treating tuberculosis, they got an eye-opener. The drug had passed the promising stage, had shown impressive results over a two-year period in the treatment of 7,000...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: War Booty | 11/21/1949 | See Source »

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