Word: bushing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Laramie, Wy., Mrs. Ralph Conwell got into the right side of her Chevrolet to wait for her husband, cinched up her new safety belt, tried in vain to reach the brake as the car rolled down the driveway, rammed a truck, jumped the curb, mowed down a lilac bush and crashed into the bedroom of the house next door...
Business Career: Left college in the spring of 1917 to enter the U.S. Army, emerged from service as a field artillery major. Worked for four different companies, ranging from construction to rubber products, "took a licking" in the 1929 crash, wound up in 1932 as president of the Bush Terminal Co., Brooklyn. He resigned, stony-broke, when Bush went bankrupt in 1933, and cast about for "something fundamental" to get into. Something fundamental proved to be steel, and in 1934, at 39, he became a "sales student" at the Gary works of Illinois Steel. Rising rapidly, he became manager...
...African Broadcasting Station (see RADIO & TV). Then he rolled in a cloud of dust 530 miles along the corrugated dirt track, called the Great North Road, to Chinsali, a district commissioner's headquarters. There he switched to a bicycle and pedaled down a goat path through man-high bush, infested with mamba snakes, lions and man-eating chiggers, to the mud-and-thatch village where lives the prophetess, Lenshina Mulenga (see RELIGION...
Safe Blue. The big problem was receiving sets. Then a British civil servant persuaded a British radio manufacturer to produce a cheap, durable set suitable for the bush. The result was the Saucepan Special, a battery-operated, four-tube set with a 50? saucepan as its cabinet. The sets are painted blue, the only color that does not clash with any of the region's innumerable tribal superstitions. Most important of all, they are insect-proof. Last week, with 60,000 sets in operation and an average of nine listeners per set, the Saucepan Special linked almost every Rhodesian...
...rainy season is over, and this week along the roads and trails and bicycle tracks of Northern Rhodesia, thousands of Africans are trudging through the bush to a clump of 20-odd huts called the village of Kasomo. They come from as far as 400 miles away to see and hear a plump, 32-year-old native woman and be baptized by her in the name of God-the black man's God. Her name is Lenshina Mulenga, and her magnetic hold on the people around Kasomo is confounding Christian missionaries there...