Word: carful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...toward the end of the year. Some basics were on the rise; during the week the average price of metal and metal products lifted 4%. Cement companies advanced prices. Diesel locomotives would cost 6% more. Chrysler Corp. added an average of $87 to the price of its passenger cars (thus leaving Ford and Studebaker as the only major car manufacturers who have held the price line since steel prices lifted...
...right: it was going to be some party. The good old Chicago Teamsters' Joint Council had gotten two special trains, all Pullman and air-conditioned, to send its 188 delegates to the Teamsters' convention in San Francisco. Each train had a special bar car-a freight car, fixed up inside with bright paint and a sort of juke box. In one car alone there were 352 cases of Blatz beer, about $25 worth of pretzels and popcorn and potato chips, cases and cases of coke and soda...
...City, Sam Conino got a telegram; his wife had her baby O.K. The boys of Sam's local were all traveling without their wives and itching for a real party, and that set it off. When it was over, there were 29 empty whiskey bottles in that bar car...
...Street of the Prophets. Further along, at 2:10 p.m., the radio in Car 755P sounded. The control room ordered: "Investigate Labor Department building." A minute or so later the car stopped near the building at the corner of the Street of the Prophets. As Middleton, carrying his old-style, drum-fed Tommy gun, climbed out, an excited clerk told him that at 2:10, several men carrying a large tin box had entered the building. They said it was a time bomb and would explode in 20 minutes; then they left...
Middleton, Watts, and Hayes found the box in the chief clerk's office. Middleton returned to the car to report: "There's a tin box covered with filing cases. Have we to evacuate the surrounding buildings?" Replied the control operator: "Evacuate. Do you want bomb disposal?" Answered Middleton...