Word: took
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Smith of Gloucester, Mass., who has been a TIME subscriber from the first issue, took exception to a remark in our July 4 cover story on Mayor Fletcher Bowron and Los Angeles. We said that Los Angeles lands more fish than Boston or Gloucester. Mr. Smith thought the statement irrelevant. He maintained that quality, not quantity, was the true measure, and that there were no fish worth eating in the Pacific anyway. Otherwise, he found the story first-rate...
...known as his homespun quip. President Harry Truman, signing a bill authorizing a special Barkley medal for his long and distinguished record in Congress, jokingly displayed a LIFE spread of Barkley cavorting with a Washington hostess, as evidence of his "service." Mr. Truman might have added that since Barkley took office in January, he has made more speeches (62 in 21 states), crowned more queens, and bussed more babies than any Vice President of record...
...week's end, after only two speeches (Paris, Ky. and Altoona, Pa.), Barkley took off in a converted B-17 accompanied by his favorite Mayflower Hotel musicians -a guitarist, a violinist, and an accordion player. "You're a little late," said Mrs. Hadley, who had been waiting for an hour at the St. Louis airport. Asked if they would elope, Barkley laughed and said, "There's only one reason for a man and woman to elope. That's if their mammy and pappy object...
Empty Shelves. The nation's department store sales were well below 1948 (off 11% for the week ending July 30). But some of the drop seemed to be the retailers' own fault. The Wall Street Journal took a shopping tour of 15 cities and found that many a store had cut its stocks so deeply that it could not meet the demand for some items...
...chuckled to his wife Eva-though with a sinking heart, because he knew that poor Eva, whose life depended on a well-ordered battery of labor-saving devices, was probably not going to relish the simple life of Utopia one bit. Only what she and Joe took to be the advancing shadow of World War III had scared her into agreeing to pull up her bourgeois roots and join him in the new colony being formed on a New England mountaintop...