Word: cadillacs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...another. The new deity is General MacArthur himself. The worship has been fed by the General's dramatic aloofness. He lives behind a white concrete wall on a towering hilltop; his paneled office is seldom visited by a Japanese. When he steps out into his long black Cadillac, crowds gather to gaze at the man who, rumor says, is descended from Amaterasu, the sun-goddess...
Then Jack Burden became a sort of confidential agent to Governor Willie Stark, who gave him research jobs on actual or potential enemies. Jack rode around in the Boss's Cadillac, chauffeured by Sugar-Boy, the little gunman. The Boss built the roads and the schools he had promised to his fellow hicks; he taxed the rich to pay for them. The Boss had to do other things to get and keep what he wanted. Burden got a long lesson in power and what happens to people who have...
Charles de Gaulle did a little horsepower trading. For his 1942 33-h.p. Cadillac, a gift from Dwight Eisenhower, a dealer gave him "something less imposing": 1) a 16-h.p. Delahaye, which le grand Charlie handed over to a relief agency; 2) a 13-h.p. Hotchkiss for Mme. de Gaulle; 3) an n-h.p. Citroen for himself...
...Grocer. While Congress sat in stalemate over OPA, the wondering. U.S. waited, too. In Detroit's Cadillac Square the United Auto Workers' fiery Walter Reuther called on a huge rally of consumers to wage a buyers' strike on meat until price controls were restored. (Demonstrating C.I.O. members in Cleveland jostled placards which promised: "I won't buy you anything but love, baby.") All over the nation, housewives talked up to their grocers. Wholesale prices on meat, butter and poultry fell off from post-OPA highs...
King Farouk of Egypt sent the Cadillac Motor Co. an order for 25 limousines, pointing out that he is a style-setter in the Middle East and that it would be nice all around if he got delivery right away. Unfortunately Imperials are not yet in production, with or without leather seats, gold fixtures and red paint...