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Word: workers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Migratory Worker. On Oahu Island, Hawaii, Plumber Jerry Kennedy heard of a job opening on another island, jumped into his 30-ft, sailboat, sailed over to apply-on Guam, 42 days and over 3,000 miles away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jun. 23, 1947 | 6/23/1947 | See Source »

...next minute, Hollenbeck caught PM and the Daily Worker redhanded filching an item (which later proved erroneous) from the columns of their archenemy, the Daily News...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Look Who's Talking | 6/16/1947 | See Source »

...Union shop (worker's must join union after they are hired). 15. But late in April the whole Labor picture changed when all but one of these titans of industry signed contracts for wage increases at 15$ an hour...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Time Current Affairs Test, Jun. 16, 1947 | 6/16/1947 | See Source »

Aileron, Maggoty. In the finals, Sonya spelled baccalaureate, saleratus and aileron correctly, drew a smile by asking whether the pronouncer meant an "ape or an underground worker" when he asked for guerrilla. Finally, she put two t's in maggoty, and was spelled down. When Mattie Lou got it right, and zipped off chlorophyll to clinch the championship, tears came to Sonya's eyes. Schoolmarm Phillips told her: "Sugar, don't you shed a tear, because you did so sweet." Champion Mattie Lou was crying a little, too. Said she to Sonya: "I wish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Spelldown | 6/9/1947 | See Source »

...patient was a middle-aged factory worker who got fed up with his job and his fellow workers. One day he suddenly blew up and was dragged away, struggling, to a hospital. There he quickly developed total amnesia; he could not even recognize his wife. A month later, still in a mental fog, he was examined by Boston's Psychiatrist Abraham Myerson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: One-Two Punch | 6/9/1947 | See Source »

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