Word: bike
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...plant) to beer. In 1941 per capita consumption of beer was 97 quarts; today it is 25. He spends money to see movies, bullfights and soccer games. In 1936 the average Mexican spent 1.42 pesos on entertainment; last year it was 7.05. He begins riding, if only a bicycle. Bike registrations climbed from 80,082 in 1946 to 386,782 last year...
...Sure, that's fine, but the office is upstairs, see, and the bike stays down here. So just find the number, the model, and the make, and take those stairs to the left there...
...What's that? You wanta sign up a bike...
...number? Well, they have it 'most anywhere. Is this here your bike? I mean some have it up here right under the seat, see, and some have it down back near the axle, right there, and some...
...Questioned repeatedly, little Dean told conflicting versions of the sequence of events. Some cops were struck by the boy's unusual intelligence, others by his consistent lack of emotion. ("My mother and father's dead," he told one cop after the tragedy, and rode off on his bike...