Word: card
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Army last week eased its censorship of the silent interval between the last phone call home before troops leave for overseas and the mailing of the "safe arrival" card. On a censored date it took correspondents on a 14-hour inspection of the huge, wide-flung New York Port of Embarkation...
...years for Long Island commuters. During that time taxes have increased 164%. Grade-crossing elimination has cost the Long Island $39.4 million-money that might otherwise have been spent for more and better equipment. The Long Island now put to a commuter vote (by a return-mail post card) the problem of passenger fares v. capital expenditures...
...Junior" Hollcar, 34, the fabulously wealthy, highly glossy Maharaja of Indore, had to surrender the C card for his light sedan; the OPA suspended it till a year from next December. Gas had been issued to him for use in Los Angeles, but he had driven to Reno with it-for a divorce and a new wife (TIME, July 19). The Maharaja will not be walking, however. He and his new wife have other cars...
...acting and liturgical advice Dodd gets $50 a day for regular hours, extra for overtime. As his movie job is only intermittent and his parish salary is $175 a month, Dodd feels he can pocket the extra cash. He is one of the few clergymen who holds a card in the Screen Actors Guild...
...vending father was naturalized at Charleston, S.C. At 14, Judah was the youngest man in his class at Yale, and a member of the teetotaling Philencratian Society. At 16, Judah was bluntly bounced out of Yale. Probable reasons: "association with a set of disorderly fellows who were addicted to card playing and gambling," theft, mysterious temptations "which he had not the moral force to resist." Judah went to New Orleans to make his fortune...