Word: cards
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Mexico City's Reforma Hotel, one day, a frail little man in faded khaki, his shirt held together with a cheap gold pin, presented to Huston a card: Hal Croves, Translator. Traven, Croves explained, couldn't come; but as Traven's old friend and translator, he, Croves, knew the author and his work better even than Traven himself did. Huston hired Croves at $150 a week as technical adviser. By the time Croves had done his job and disappeared, Huston was pretty certain that uneasy little Mr. Croves was Traven himself...
...smuggled into Belgium, "validated" with a forged Foreign Office stamp, then sold to the highest bidders in Paris, Hamburg or Munich. When demand swamped supply, George and his associates hit on another scheme. Over many a pint in Glasgow pubs, they asked local folk to hand over their identity cards "to help a friend who wants to get to Eire." For a fiver, hundreds of Glaswegians did so. The card details, plus photographs of D.P. clients, were then used in filling out passport applications. When the passports were issued, George took them to Germany...
Last week, ex-Partner Ferguson played his last card. In New York's Federal Court, he sued Henry Ford II, Dearborn Motors Corp., the Ford Motor Co. and others for $251 million damages. He charged 1) patent infringements, and 2) conspiracy to monopolize the farm tractor and implement business. Ferguson claimed that the Ford Motor Co. had "recognized the validity [of his patents] and placed the statutory patent notice on all tractors manufactured down to June 1947." He wanted to collect triple damages on the 37,000 tractors Ford has made since the split, and other damages for having...
...what a course's contents and purposes are other than its number, field of concentration, and time of meeting, and writing a 30-page series of suggestions on ways to integrate the Freshman class so that it is a little more meaningful than a number on a bursar's card--these were sufficient reasons for me to favor Kimball's appointment to the Council...
John Doe drove a Cadillac, worked in an air-conditioned office and smoked 75? cigars. When John died, the undertaker (whose card described him as a "mortician") came to talk over the arrangements with his widow...