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Word: buick (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...some instruction from his roommate, Hank Greenberg (58 home runs with Detroit in 1938), he boosted his home-run production to 51 the following year-and his salary from $10,000 to $30,000. With that he could afford to buy his mother a new home, drive a maroon Buick, and dress the part of baseball's most eligible bachelor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Pride of the Pirates | 10/3/1949 | See Source »

Operation Trusty. In Michigan City, Ind., Trusties Walter Gump and Leo Stumbaugh, stopped while walking out of the Indiana State Prison, admitted that they did it frequently, had used their time off to hold up a store for $4,145 and buy a Buick coupe, which they kept in the prison parking lot when it was not being used either for joyrides or for getaway purposes in other holdups...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Aug. 1, 1949 | 8/1/1949 | See Source »

Family Act. The Buick-sponsored, hour-long uproar offered explosive fragments of an act the comics have been working on for 35 years. It grew from the first prop they ever used - a brass rail to support their vaudeville rendition of Sweet Adeline. Today, their hundreds of props fill three baggage cars, their cast of 90 includes 35 stooges. For all its size, the show is still essentially a family vaudeville act. Johnson's pretty daughter, June, and his son-in-law, Comic Marty May, have leading roles. So does deadpan Ole's deadpan son, J. C. Olsen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio & TV: Laugh Factory | 7/11/1949 | See Source »

...black Packard with drawn shades stopped before the palaitial brick building that once housed Japan's governor general in Taipei, capital of Formosa. Behind it rolled a Buick convertible full of bodyguards. They stood aside watchfully as , Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek hurried inside the building to confer with his old military pupil, now Formosa's Nationalist governor, greying General Chen Cheng...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ISLAND REDOUBT: ISLAND REDOUBT | 7/4/1949 | See Source »

...Moslem cavalry to Lanchow. They pitched their white tents and grazed their horses on the city's airfield, took over the guard of public buildings. Ma was making sure that Nationalist troops in Lanchow would not revolt against him. Then, unannounced, he followed in a green Buick escorted by a truckful of bodyguards...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Ma v. Marx | 6/27/1949 | See Source »

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