Word: brakes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...another beat. He was on his way for a quiet beer just as the cops flushed Dillinger Henchman Homer van Meter, then Public Enemy No. 1, from an apartment hiding place. In trying to escape, Van Meter ran in front of Presbrey's car. Presbrey jammed on the brake and the cops poured 40 slugs into Van Meter. Now, after such narrow escapes, Paul Presbrey is getting a little mystical about his luck. Says he: "Sometimes it scares me. But I couldn't stop going if I wanted...
...wealth of top U.S. industries: Gulf Oil, Koppers, Aluminum Co. of America, the Mellon Bank and the General Reinsurance Co., which have total assets of more than $3.3 billion, and in which the Mellons have absolute or dominant control; First Boston Corp., Pittsburgh Consolidation Coal Co., Westinghouse Air Brake Co., Pennsylvania Railroad, Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co., in all of which the Mellons have large interests...
...What's more, they went on, Mahwah (from the Indian, Maa Eway -"meeting place") is a real-life township of 5,000 souls, about 25 miles from New York City. Many of the citizens commute to Manhattan every day, some work in a local plant of the American Brake Shoe Co., others grow apples and all of them have had enough from incredulous strangers. Said...
...Prime Minister Canada ever had." He has speeded up the poky, 19th Century office routine of Mackenzie King. Decisions come down so fast that his aides often worry that St. Laurent is too hasty. Cracked one: "What Mr. King needed was an animator; what St. Laurent needs is a brake...
...Brake Down. In Garden City, Kans., John Luther Fry headed for a garage to get his brakes fixed, couldn't stop until he had smashed the garage window...