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Word: upping (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sir: . . . One look at the cover and I tore up my renewal. I consider it an insult to the many fine men & women who have appeared on your covers in the past . . .

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 19, 1949 | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

Even sad-eyed Charley Ross, the President's press secretary, was hard put to hide his smile. Gravely he introduced the bespectacled, sunburned little man in the seersucker suit to the morning press conference at Key West, Fla. "We have with us today a distinguished contributor to the Federal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Kitten on the Keys | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

The vice consul's Irish setter was first up the gangway. Then fur-hatted Consul General Angus Ward loomed over the side of the U.S. freighter Lakeland Victory, at anchor off Taku Bar, a deep-water port downriver from Tientsin, China. He squinted cheerfully through his steel-rimmed spectacles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Hellish Treatment | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

When he grew more wheat or collected more eggs than the public would buy at his price, the Government's Commodity Credit Corp. bailed him out. That was all right during the war, when CCC, with $4,750,000,000 to draw on, could sell whatever it bought. Even...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FARMERS: Plague of Plenty | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

By such buying, the U.S. Government had become the nation's No. 1 warehouse, currently stuck with more corn, wheat and cotton than that held by aU the private firms in the nation. Among the items laid up in Government storehouses, grain elevators and cold-storage caves:

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FARMERS: Plague of Plenty | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

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