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Word: stops (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this point, things have gone so far that we have at most one last jump into the future. And that is to revive certain elements of the Japanese army-which, under U.S. direction, can stop the Red tide...

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

Richland's inhabitants, for the most part, seemed fairly satisfied with their lot. But the city's young Mayor David McDonald, an earnest, 34-year-old atomic chemist, missed the leavening of free enterprise. It was little things that set him thinking. Once he tried to stop some youngsters who were robbing his backyard peach tree, and got a sassy, truthful reply: "Our teacher says that everything in Richland belongs to the Government." A neighbor came home from work one evening to find his carefully nurtured flower bed torn up; that was where the Master Plan decreed that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ATOM: Model City | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

Talburt drew a bedraggled U.S. eagle, being kicked in the tail by a Chinese Communist. The eagle's scream: "Ouch! Please stop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Public Opinion at Work | 12/5/1949 | See Source »

...deny that he had collected the royalties, but claimed that FTC's order last week to stop the practices was "entirely academic," since the licensing agreements and the patents had expired last March. FTC, aware of the lapse in patents, said that it had issued its order anyway just to be sure that Taylor would not start up his system again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOVERNMENT,NEW PRODUCTS: Monopoly on Paper? | 12/5/1949 | See Source »

...Derby, La Rue's and Romanoff's restaurants last week found little warning cards on the tables. The warning: don't eat our steaks. At $5.50 to $7.50 apiece, they were "entirely too much," because of the rise in wholesale costs. Begged La Rue's: "Stop eating steaks for awhile and bring these prices down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Resistance, Please | 12/5/1949 | See Source »

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