Word: buick
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hillbilly Come-On. One afternoon when he drove into Mendenhall, seat of Simpson County, only seven courthouse loafers were on hand to greet him. To drum up a crowd, his nephew, Cason Rankin, hooked up a loudspeaker in the Congressman's black Buick sedan, toured the town playing hillbilly recordings. But half an hour's driving netted only three more shirtsleeved listeners. John Rankin brushed back his mane of stringy yellow hair, flung out his arms and shouted...
...seen so many convertibles and custom jobs; never before had there been such traffic jams. A glimpse at license plates told Kansans where most of the shiny cars came from-the rich western wheat counties. Kenneth Richardson, a 24-year-old student, told how he got his green 1947 Buick convertible: "During the summer I hired a crew for two combines and folowed the wheat harvest from Oklahoma to Canada. We made plenty...
...startd at 7:30 o'clock in front of Old Jawn. Led by the band, 24 torch-carriers, a Crimson bedecked Great Dane, and a vintage 1920 Buick, owned by Bill Currier '50, of Wigglesworth Hall, the procession wound through the Yard, across Massachusetts Avenue and down Holyoke Street. At the Bow Street triangle, the first casualty of the night, Dutch-tile fancier Clemens P. Woop '00, was seen limping into his sanctuary...
Like the slow return of washing machines and Buick convertibles to the American scene, College athletics are still throwing off the traces of war-time curtailment in their quest for the elusive goal of "normality...
Lake the slow return of washing machines and Buick convertibles to the American seene, College athletics are still throwing off the traces of wartime curtailment to their quest for the clusive goal of "normality...