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Word: tulsa (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Family Affair. In Tulsa, Mrs. Jessie Eli had the cops collar two strange young men who had entered her house, next day asked to have them freed when she learned they were her brothers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Feb. 17, 1947 | 2/17/1947 | See Source »

Loss of Face. In Tulsa, Okla., Traffic Patrolman Ned Fanning blew his whistle at a woman driver, got angry when she "made an awful face," made one right back, threw his jaw out of place...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Dec. 16, 1946 | 12/16/1946 | See Source »

Burned Up. In Tulsa, police seized a landlord who set fire to his property to burn a tenant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Oct. 14, 1946 | 10/14/1946 | See Source »

...this ad in the Tulsa Tribune last week a merchant angrily said his say against the flood of rising food prices in the U.S. While Congress still wrangled over OPA (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), most manufacturers held the line on prices, worried lest a sudden boost bring back OPA with a rush. But food was something else again. The Bureau of Labor Statistics gravely reported that its food index had jumped 16.1 points last week alone. And with commodity prices rising all along the line, chances were that food would continue to rise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PRICES: The Pressure Rises | 7/22/1946 | See Source »

Briny Deep. In Tulsa, a burglar moseyed around a market, stepped on a weak spot in the floor, dropped into a. 60-gal, pickle barrel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, May 13, 1946 | 5/13/1946 | See Source »

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