Word: arounders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...proud of it, but we figure we have earned everything we got," he said. Last year, he spent $3,000 remodeling his kitchen-an electric stove, automatic dishwashing machine, a big Deepfreeze, a whole set of fancy kitchen cabinets. He has "three or four" radios around the house, including a radio-phonograph for the kids; his four barns are in top shape. This year he is thinking of putting concrete floors in the feeding lots. It will cost him $600 to $700. "We're being cautious," said Bob Orr. "I'm not buying a thing that...
Last week the Indiana Farm Bureau began polling its members about their 1949 vacation plans. Usually the Farm Bureau sponsors tours around the U.S. This time, for the first time, the bureau had a question to ask prospering Hoosier farmers: How would they like sponsored tours to Hawaii, Alaska, Europe, South America...
This week, after one continuous 21-hour session, both sides finally accepted a presidential fact-finding board's judgment. The unions got their 40-hour week and a 7?-an-hour wage boost. They lost their argument for extra pay for Saturdays and Sundays. The settlement would add around $300 million to the cost of running the nation's railroads in 1949, but the board figured that the railroads could afford...
Billy's trailers were laden with explosive isobutane, as he barreled along on Franklin Canyon Highway one day last week. On a curve outside Pinole, Calif., he swung around a car. Another car was coming toward him. A woman was driving, and there were three kids in the back seat. Billy saw the car waver, then veer to the wrong side of the road. Billy wrenched at the big wheel, sent the rig thundering off the pavement, across a shallow ditch, through a barbed-wire fence...
...great day for the impeccable Jacques Dumaine, chief of protocol at the Quai d'Orsay, who is known around press rooms and chancelleries as Jeeves. In magnificent cutaway, his monocle fixed now in his right, now in his left eye, he was the embodiment of conventional diplomacy. With discreet gestures of guidance, he led delegate after delegate to a huge table in the French Foreign Ministry's Galerie de la Paix where the Allies signed their lenient peace treaties with Hitler's former allies, Hungary, Rumania and Bulgaria. After the signing, the treaties were sent to Moscow...