Word: ariz
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Traffic Jam. In Tempe, Ariz., Scott Whitcock tied his horse to a hitching rack, left it there too long, came back to find a parking ticket tied to the saddle horn...
Moppets at Work. Department stores and merchandising chains pledged no price lifts on present stocks. Organized buyers' strikes threatened in several cities, but failed to develop. But an unorganized one did, in miniature. In Phoenix, Ariz. tricycling vendors boosted their price of ice cream sticks by a penny. Result: moppets refused to buy. By the third day the price was back to a nickel...
...Captain Kathleen B. Nash, 43, of Phoenix, Ariz.; Colonel J. W. Durant of Falls Church, Va., whom Captain Nash had just married; Major David F. Watson of Burlingame, Calif.; and a prowling corporal who had discovered the cache under bottle rows of rare old wine. Both the Durants were on terminal leave...
Uncontrolled. In Phoenix, Ariz., Richard Sirmer hurled a bottle of lighter fluid at an annoying cat, tossed his flaming lighter after it, burned up the cat, burned down the house...
...half days after the atomic bomb went off in the New Mexico desert last summer, the air over Maryland, 1,700 miles away, had nearly twice its normal radioactivity. The U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey noted a similar phenomenon at Tucson, Ariz. But the Eastman Kodak Co. was the first to trace, and announce, the actual spread of the deadly, dusty mushroom which sprouted above MacDonald's ranch that July...