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Word: buckaroos (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...chubby suburbanite was driving home through the outskirts of Detroit. In front of the Methodist Church at Farmington his eyelids dropped, the front wheels fluttered, the car curved, careened, crashed into the back of a parked truck. So died a rootin', tootin', shootin', hell-for-leather buckaroo -radio's Lone Ranger. As founder of the five-year-old Lone Ranger Safety Club, he had broadcast many a strong appeal for careful driving...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Death of the Ranger | 4/21/1941 | See Source »

...States (Michigan, California, Massachusetts, Georgia, Illinois, Maryland, Indiana, Missouri, New Jersey, Ohio, New York, Tennessee, Wisconsin, Washington), who earned $386,292,203 last year; grey-red, hulky President Signius Wilhelm Poul Knudsen, who has earned $307,200 in a single year (1937); husky, handsome Max Raynes, 27, a Detroit buckaroo who spends his dough (wages last week: $40.79) on clothes and girls, gives his old father $5 a week; Floyd Forbus, 36, of Flint, who made $1,800 last year, $38 last week, to take care of a wife, two children, and his prize-winning dahlia garden...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Plant Elections | 4/29/1940 | See Source »

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