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Word: ticket (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...before year's end, forcing the election of a successor in next month's off-year election. Democrats planned to run popular Murray D. Van Wagoner, who was Highway Commissioner for seven years until he jumped to the Governor's chair in 1941, led the Democratic ticket last November although he failed of reelection...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Counterpoint | 3/8/1943 | See Source »

...planters' houses, and stare out across the endless sultry tea fields. The enlisted men took to teaching Assamese kids American. They all wished the Japs would attack. Their C.O., Colonel Homer Leroy Sanders, had said: "If the Japs come over, all they will need is a one-way ticket...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BATTLE OF ASIA: The Dragons | 3/8/1943 | See Source »

Riches to Rags. In San Diego, Patrolman Alvin Becker stopped a speeding motorist, refused a one-dollar bribe, handed a ticket to the enraged driver, who vented his vexation by tearing the thing into shreds, shortly found he had torn up the dollar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Mar. 8, 1943 | 3/8/1943 | See Source »

...enter the Maritime Commission's officers' training school at New London, Connecticut. Here a three months' course teaches him all the duties of an officer, including navigation, piloting, and handling of men. Finishing the New London course, the candidate undergoes a special examination for his third mate's ticket...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Maritime Commission Trains Men to Serve With Merchant Victory Fleet | 3/5/1943 | See Source »

Looking for the best train to New York? Time it runs? Cost of a round trip ticket? The answers to these questions can best be obtained from Jack Yankee. It is reliably reported that he has yet to miss a weekend. However, with the cost of the trips suddenly zooming sky high because of unusual expense with his fiancee's apartment, we may expect to see Jacy around the Square for a while...

Author: By Stanley Cole, | Title: THE NAVY SUPPLY CORPS SCHOOL | 3/5/1943 | See Source »

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