Search Details

Word: wente (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...read with interest the article concerning Eugene Stefan, the D.P., and how union men went on strike to give his job to another [TIME, Aug. 15]. Omaha, indeed, must be quite a city. No doubt the 300 strikers and Labor Leader Preble must feel rather proud of themselves for having secured the job for a "real American" instead of a foreigner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 5, 1949 | 9/5/1949 | See Source »

...lights went out. Listeners above could hear his teeth chattering and he seemed short of breath. Once he said: "I'm freezing to death." But he stuck it out to 4,500. "I'll say it's cold down here. There goes a big white jellyfish. I never saw anything like that before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Deep Dip | 8/29/1949 | See Source »

Last month, Saunders' one and only Keedoozle in Memphis went kerplunk. In eleven months Saunders had lost $170,000. Said he: "Keedoozle was too much for the average mind to comprehend." Besides attracting too few customers, it cost too much to run the calculators and conveyor belts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RETAIL TRADE: Keedoozle Kerplunk | 8/29/1949 | See Source »

With that assurance, Tate &. Lyle went ahead with a new slogan to bedevil the Labor government. Beginning this week, its packages will carry a cartoon showing "Mr. Cube" pointing to sugar pouring from a gaping hole in a sugar box. The caption: "Nationalization will make a hole in your pocket and a hole in my packet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ADVERTISING: Sugar Slogans | 8/29/1949 | See Source »

Completed Pass. In Hamilton, Ohio, Detective James Parker, treasurer of the local Fraternal Order of Police, went to deposit the receipts from the organization's annual picnic, and learned that one of the $20 bills was counterfeit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Aug. 29, 1949 | 8/29/1949 | See Source »

Previous | 102 | 103 | 104 | 105 | 106 | 107 | 108 | 109 | 110 | 111 | 112 | 113 | 114 | 115 | 116 | 117 | 118 | 119 | 120 | 121 | 122 | Next