Word: carful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...next time you are in New York City you may be interested to know that you can hire an armored car at a moment's notice, get rid of a half dozen tired neckties by mailing them to an outfit that sends you (for $1) six different ones in return, be taken care of at midnight at the "Dawn Patrol Beauty Salon," or rent a psychoanalytical motion picture to help you understand yourself...
Family Pull. In St. Paul, Maxine Emerson dipped into 45,000 names in a lottery for a new car, drew out her father...
...What I Mean? In Fort Wayne, Traffic Expert Fred Berghoff emerged from a conference with Mayor Henry E. Branning on the overtime-parking problem, found a ticket on his car for overtime parking...
...gold-draped stage in the Waldorf-Astoria's grand ballroom, the shiny new Ford makes its bow this week. It is a sleek, square-cut car only 5 ft. 3 in. high and completely redesigned from grill to luggage compartment. With seats eight inches wider than the 1948 models, more luggage space, 20 square feet of windows and a new-fangled heating and ventilating unit, the 1949 Ford has an optional six-or eight-cylinder motor. The traditional (and hard riding) transverse springs have been replaced by coil springs in the front, leaf springs parallel to the frame...
...finance production of his rear-engined Tucker '48 (TIME, July 7 et seq.). Last week, Promoter Tucker announced an ingenious scheme (which the SEC is carefully watching) to raise millions more. He wanted to sell radios, seat covers and other extra accessories to prospective car buyers for $270 a set. They could take delivery in six weeks or wait until their cars are delivered. In return for paying for the extras now, the purchasers would get a priority number for future delivery of Tuckers...