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Word: holidays (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Land. By this year, CARE-which had started at war's end with a supply of two million 10-in-1 army rations-had sent 9,000,000 relief packages to Europe and Asia. This Christmas season, CARE offered 18 varieties of packages, ranging from the $13.50 holiday parcel (including one canned Sell's turkey, 8 oz. Swanson butter, 1 lb. Crosse & Blackwell plum pudding, 1 lb. Welch's orange marmalade, 1 lb. Sun-Maid raisins, 1 lb. Uncle Ben's rice, 1 lb. Co-op coffee and 1 can-opener) to the $10 layette packages...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PLAIN PEOPLE: All on Earth Together | 12/26/1949 | See Source »

...Holiday Hour (Sun. 5 p.m., CBS). The Man Who Came to Dinner, with Jack Benny...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Program Preview, Dec. 26, 1949 | 12/26/1949 | See Source »

Officials of the transportation industry stayed up late last night perfecting plans to cope with the traditional efflux, while highway police prepared to welcome the holiday crowd...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Students Exeunt as College Puts Half Century on File | 12/21/1949 | See Source »

Sight-seeing, skiing, and singing will feature an intensive 17-day holiday program for foreign students in the Boston area, the International Student Association revealed today...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Foreign Students Get Xmas Treat | 12/20/1949 | See Source »

...instance, the tap dancing of Fred Astaire, who clicks his heels and tocs through several excellent routines. In the best of these he dances better while playing a drunk than most of the hoofers could cold sober. Throughout "Holiday Inn" Astaire plays a foil for Bing Crosby. In this film, a Paramount re-release, Crosby's voice and hairline are still intact. He sings an excellent selection of Irving Berlin tunes--"Easter Parade," "Be Careful, It's My Heart," and, of course "White Christmas." The result is like a greeting card: it has no art and no subtlety...

Author: By Stephen O. Saxe, | Title: THE MOVIEGOER | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

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