Word: carful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bitter ideological war between Communism and democracy, too many Americans forget what the Communists never let others forget-that democracy in the U.S. is far from perfect. Last week those Americans got a jolting reminder from beefy, deep-voiced A. Philip Randolph, president of the sleeping car porters' union...
...district of small homes and gardens to Country Club Plaza, the neo-Spanish shopping center of J. C. Nichols' famed suburban development (TIME, Dec. 1). Just beyond, they turned west along Brush Creek, lined and bottomed with the concrete Tom Pendergast sold. Just across the Kansas line, the car turned up a short driveway to a large stone-and-brick house,† a full eight-iron shot from the tenth green of the Mission Hills golf course. As he opened the front door, Roberts whistled shrilly and yelled to his wife: "Hey, Madam, I'm home...
Some exporters were using duplicates of licenses issued for the shipment of small quantities of goods to export large quantities of commodities high on the restricted list. Example: license No. 758,447 had been issued by the Department of Commerce for the export of a 1942 Buick car; the copy that went through the Custom House indicated that the license had been used to ship 1,000,000 pounds of flour to Brazil. The perforated word "validated," which made the license official, was forged...
Mechanical miners that do all the work from coal seam to mine car are nothing new. Mining engineers have been trying them with limited success for years. But coal men cheered the vast improvements in this one as the "most serious start" ever made towards simplifying their complex operations...
...steering-wheel gearshift). Last fall they were finally ready with something that Barit felt to be a real advance. The new Hudson was so low that passengers step over the frame and down into it from the curb, yet it still has more headroom and width than any other car now being mass-produced. It also has a lower center of gravity. Barit was so convinced he had a salable car that he spent $18 million to retool. Last week, shy Ed Barit was beaming with good news: in 1947 Hudson had doubled its profit to $5.7 million. Better still...