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Word: tireless (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lost in the bureaucratic maze of the Narkomindel (signifying that his tireless bouncing around London had displeased his superiors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Comings & Goings | 8/9/1943 | See Source »

Noel Coward, 43, tireless jack-of-all theater, sang his newest number over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Aug. 9, 1943 | 8/9/1943 | See Source »

...September 1939, burly, tireless Philip Gustav Johnson became president of Boeing Airplane for the second time in his life. His first term ended in 1934, when Boeing was part of United Aircraft, and Johnson, as United president, became a scapegoat in the U.S. Government's abortive 1934 airmail contract cancellation. When Boeing recalled him from Canadian exile five years later, the company was suffering from two interrelated problems: 1) sales were small, its profit & loss statement soaked in red ink; 2) production was painstakingly perfectionist and inefficient...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION,GOVERNMENT: Boeing Needs 9,000 Men | 8/2/1943 | See Source »

...tireless statisticians of Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. have figured out that no one should let himself gain weight after the age of 25-if he wants to live his full span. Last October the company published a set of ideal weights for women. Last week's Statistical Bulletin contained the table...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Weight and Death | 7/19/1943 | See Source »

...Tireless CCF Leader M. J. Coldwell has been more voluble and outspoken on this Shipshaw finance than on the question of public ownership. Already producing power and scheduled for completion in November, Shipshaw was under construction 15 months before its existence was revealed last January. The Aluminum Co. of Canada had financed it to the hilt from contracts on future aluminum deliveries signed with the U.S., Britain and Australia. Primarily, the dam was built to supply power for the war production of aluminum. U.S. Secretary of Commerce Jesse Jones advanced $68,500,000 in fund's of the Metals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: The Power Issue | 7/5/1943 | See Source »

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