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Word: walla (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...horse wrangler on the side. He and some mercenary Indians trap mustangs and sell them for chicken feed. Business looks good when Blanding traps thousands of mustangs in a natural amphitheater; but he reckons without Stanley and Lark, who might have been the founding father and mother of the Walla Walla S.P.C.A...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Grey Rides On--and On | 9/14/1959 | See Source »

Layers of Fat. Ralph Cordiner has always made good use of his time. He was born in 1900 on his father's 1,280-acre wheat farm near Walla Walla, Wash., just eight years after a genial Quaker named Charles A. Coffin merged two electrical firms to found General Electric. Cordiner went to small Whitman College, where he worked his way through school by doing odd jobs and selling wooden-paddle washing machines for the Pacific Power & Light Co. He went to work for Pacific Power after graduation, became such a star salesman that he was soon lured away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ATOMIC ENERGY: The Powerhouse | 1/12/1959 | See Source »

From Wall Street to Walla Walla, the tremendous surge of the U.S. economy was felt across the nation last week. Though the economy still ailed in spots, its recuperative force and obvious vitality showed up so strongly that even the optimistic were taken by surprise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATE OF BUSINESS: Tremendous Surge | 10/20/1958 | See Source »

Oooh-eee-oooh-aah-aah Ting-tang Walla-walla bing-bang...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Purple, Man, Purple | 7/7/1958 | See Source »

...Walla, Walla, Wash...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 2, 1958 | 6/2/1958 | See Source »

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