Word: buick
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ante to a dollar seventy-five we would be successful. It is hard to admit that I was as gullible as I was. But I gave them the money, and the Democrat was beaten worse than any candidate in years. Shortly thereafter, however, he blossomed out in a new Buick automobile...
...three women and two children-the exact complement of Brigham Young's advance guard in the great trek of 1847-started west from Nauvoo, Ill. to commemorate that event. They anticipated nothing more dangerous than flat tires and Chamber of Commerce luncheons. Their shiny new Buick and Studebaker automobiles were disguised by plywood oxen and white canvas tops. To please the church's publicity department, they camped out every night...
...last year). Early in the tour, Sarah showed the effect of being out of competition a year. She won only four of the first twelve matches, was unable to match Pauline's energetic retrieving and superlative backhand. But business was good and both girls had fun. In a Buick convertible, their only big capital investment for the tour, they drove from Houston to Milwaukee to Chicago to Kalamazoo...
...usual, Avery Brundage's crusade to keep dollars out of amateur sport got him small thanks. Canada was still calling him names because he virtually forced Skater Barbara Ann Scott to return a Buick the citizens of Ottawa gave her (TIME, May 19). Last week, when the Olympic Committee gathered in Stockholm, the Swedish press got in a few rounds of a favorite indoor game which anyone can play: putting pins in Brundage...
...reason for such relatively painless transition was United's canny wartime conservatism. It did not expand beyond its abilities. Rentschler, who has a dread of spreading the brains too thin, farmed out work to some 650 vendor companies. To build P. & W. engines it licensed, among others, Ford, Buick, Nash-Kelvinator and Continental. Rentschler learned his job in more than 30 years' experience in the aircraft industry...