Word: auto
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...would like to add, from my observation, another means by which English sparrows have very nicely solved their food problem ... [By] feeding on the insects which are found abundantly in the radiator grills of every auto...
...three months, in Detroit's Sheraton Hotel, Walter Reuther's auto workers and the Chrysler Corp. had tried to outguess each other with their separate versions of the newest and most complicated gimmick in labor contracts-pensions for workers. Last week Reuther gave a sleight-of-hand demonstration of how to baffle the adversary and how not to get 89,000 workers back on their jobs...
...idea of a Baltimore adman, Lucky Number is based on a five-to-nine-digit master number which listeners must match up with the numbers on their Social Security cards, drivers' licenses or auto permits. By last week so many were scrambling for the $100 prizes that one Washington station was pumping out lucky numbers twelve times a day, and professional listeners were already popping up offering to keep tabs for anyone who was too busy to listen himself. The only check in sight seemed to be the Supreme Court, which is expected to hand down its decision...
...auto-short Korea, nearly everybody walks unless he is in a hurry; in that case he runs. In Boston last week three wiry young Koreans were in a hurry for 26 miles, 385 yds. By running the distance in a shade over 2½ hours, they finished 1-2-3 in the 53rd Boston marathon. In so doing, they outclassed an international field of 131, including last year's winner, Karl Gösta Leandersson of Sweden...
Member of the Wedding. In Minneapolis, Donald and Barbara Nelson, injured in an auto accident on their wedding night, brought damage suits totaling $15,000 against several defendants, including their driver, Best Man David Hastay...