Word: bugging
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sixth time, bug-eyed Camillien Houde would be mayor of Montreal. There had been talk that a couple of unknowns would try to take his $10,000-a-year job away from him, but they decided to save the taxpayers' time and money. And so as filing time expired, Houde became last week the first Montreal mayor since 1898 to land the job without opposition...
...added to the list of things he admired: the wintry hills of Vermont and New Hampshire; the old Dewey family home in Lebanon, N.H., now occupied by Farmer Daniel E. Lahaye; Mrs. Lahaye's range; the Lahayes' year-old daughter ("She's as cute as a bug"); and the snow-covered New Hampshire cemetery where the Dewey ancestors are buried. "Old cemeteries fascinate me," he said...
...Grant Jackson, 6, a second-grader, bagged the vacation reading championship of Hobart, Okla. by plugging through 120 books (104 of them read aloud to his brother, Mike). Among the books: The Lady Bug Who Couldn't Fly Home, Scatter the Chipmunk, Eagle Jack and Indian Pete...
...dollar-shy Canada, it was a windfall with a catch. Canadians, too, have the travel bug. In July, 35,336 Canadian cars visited the U.S. for 24 hours or more, a gain of 32% on July 1946. For the first seven, months of 1947, the total was 102,260, up 24%. How much money they left behind was still anyone's guess, but even with dollar restrictions it was likely to be more than last year's $126 million...
Harrington also had a long-range program that made Chicagoans bug-eyed. By upping streetcar and bus fares from 9? to 10? (El fares would remain at 12?), he hoped to boost the operational earnings of the combined lines, now taxexempt, to about $14 million a year (last year's earnings: $8,000,000 before taxes). With this money coming in to meet depreciation and debt charges, he planned to spend $150 million on modernization. By 1955, if all went well, Chicago would get 2,900 new buses, 600 new streetcars, 1,000 new El coaches...