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Word: toed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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RCA Victor last week made a low bow to a competitor whose existence it had pointedly ignored. On display for RCA distributors last week went new radio-phonograph combinations which will play not only RCA's 45 and the standard (78 r.p.m.) record, but Columbia's 33⅓...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RETAIL TRADE: Low Bow | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

Another monument to the strange economics of the Government's price-support program (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) was on view last week. It consisted of 4,000 tons of cottonseed, piled high on the concrete tennis courts of a former naval air station in Oklahoma City. Bought and paid for...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMODITIES: Let 'em Eat Cake | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

But cottonseed producers were happy. Southern Congressmen had pressured CCC to buy the seed from farmers at a support price of $46.50 a ton, higher than the local open-market price of $45 and under. Producers were, of course, the only ones happy. Processors, who turn the seed into cottonseed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMODITIES: Let 'em Eat Cake | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

As usual, the U.S. consumer would probably have to shell out twice. He was already paying for the support price; by next spring he might be paying again in higher prices for steak.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMODITIES: Let 'em Eat Cake | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

In the advertising world, the quipsters say, every agency has a special back door to accommodate its swarms of vice presidents. Last week, Manhattan's McCann-Erickson, Inc., fifth biggest U.S. agency,* had to enlarge its doors. It added four women to its present complement of 40 male V.P.s...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PERSONNEL: Quartet | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

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