Word: blowout
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Roman Holiday. In Camden, N.J., the Fourth Ward Republicans Club celebrated the fall of Rome with a blowout, got a 45-day suspension of their liquor license for 1) serving liquor on Sunday and 2) selling it for off-the-premises...
...will be back-in-1942 models. The need for quick production will rule out Buck Rogerish creations of plastic and light metals. But automakers have not yet decided on prices. Last week the Wall Street Journal surveyed the industry, came up with some price predictions as hot as a blowout on a curve. The predictions: car prices may be up from 25 to 40% over...
Swelling synthetic rubber production lulled many a U.S. citizen into the pleasant belief that the rubber-tired nation had rolled safely past the crisis point (TIME, Oct. 18). Last week, OPA's Tire Ration Chief, Sparks Bonnett, jolted them as roughly as a blowout on a curve. Said he: the vise-tight pinch in tires is just beginning...
...thanks in advance to Doug Baker for arranging the swell blowout for Monday night, and to "Had" Haddaway for consenting to toast-mast (er?). If we can keep up with Had's double talk, things'll be fun. It starts flowing at 1800, at the Harvard Club of Boston, Commonwealth and Massachusetts Avenues (Mass. Ave. Station), and first on the programme are "unlimited cocktails" until 1845. Featured on the dinner will be Mushroom Soup, Roast Beef and Strawberry Sundae, garnished with Midshipman entertainment, some tavern harmony led by "Jake" and a very few remarks from the honored guests. Captain McIntosh...
...Seth Grey can't be with us at the Harvard Club blowout a week from next Monday. He's on a month's leave, Preparatory to re-entering as a Midship- man with the new class on June J. That's a tough reason for a vacation, as were the deals Fate handed out to Ken Seitz and George Webb...