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Word: threshers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, in his efforts to stave off this eventuality, Petrillo had tangled himself up in the works of the canned-music business with the bellicose ingenuity of an octopus in a pea thresher...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: The Pied Piper of Chi | 1/26/1948 | See Source »

Congratulations on your excellent article concerning the crop situation in the U.S. (TIME, Aug. 19). Evidently the picture entitled Dinner for Threshers goes with the article. I don't mean to question the work of Mr. Grant Wood, but just where is the thresher who is washing his face going to sit? The table seems to be fully occupied from where...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 9, 1946 | 9/9/1946 | See Source »

Last week the amazingly efficient harvester-thresher machines were moving north, from Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas, adding more grain to the glut. The year's crop was expected to hit 900,000,000 bushels. Grain men figured that this, plus the 630,000,000 bushels carried over from last year, would be enough to supply the whole U.S. for two years, without putting another seed in the ground...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOOD: Too Much Wheat | 8/3/1942 | See Source »

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