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Word: toughs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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According to 270-lb. Jim Button, Assistant Chief of the U.S. Department of Agriculture's division of grasshopper control, this is the worst grasshopper season since 1940. But the hoppers are having a tough time; they are being mowed down in their youth by new poisons, new spreading devices and far better organization among their human enemies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: War in the West | 7/25/1949 | See Source »

...tough little film about a washed-up small-timer (Robert Ryan) in the fight racket (TIME, April...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Current & Choice, Jul. 25, 1949 | 7/25/1949 | See Source »

...tough little film about a washed-up smalltimer in the fight racket, with Robert Ryan (TiME, April...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Current & Choice, Jul. 18, 1949 | 7/18/1949 | See Source »

...Tough All Over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: All in Good Time | 7/18/1949 | See Source »

...Ford contract on a day-to-day basis, the United Auto Workers' Walter Reuther insisted that only a surrender by Ford could avert a strike; "We are prepared," cried Reuther, "to use all the weapons possessed by free labor in America." The steel workers talked just as tough, but Big Steel's tight-lipped Ben Fairless showed no signs of yielding. Snapped he last week: "There is no sound or proper justification for . . . a wage increase at this time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Fourth Round? | 7/18/1949 | See Source »

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