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Word: toot (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Build Us... O My Congress." "There is a delusion," he said, "which causes America to sink large quantities of money into our American rivers, and that is the toot of a steamboat whistle. Somehow it is believed that if we can only have a steamboat whistle tooting through the heart of the corn belt there will be enormous riches . . ." He was attacking the feasibility of authorizing $250 million more for the celebrated Pick-Sloan development on the Missouri River. Said Fair Dealer Douglas: "I think it is a very serious question whether the United States of America needs a nine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Steamboat Comin1 Roun' de Bend | 5/1/1950 | See Source »

Tits on a Toot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 13, 1950 | 2/13/1950 | See Source »

...diameter, which until recently had graced the West Coast steamship Yale. Now Yaleman Bertie McCormick ('03) had acquired it for a new and loftier mission: to warn Chicagoland of an atomic-bomb raid. Before leaving for an Arizona vacation, the colonel had left orders for a test toot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Whistle That Didn't | 1/23/1950 | See Source »

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