Word: carful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Very Reverend Kirk B. O'Ferrall read the service. The crowd filed out and a Packard hearse carried the body of Henry Ford out along Joy Road to the small family cemetery beside a four-lane highway. Henry Ford had never ridden comfortably in any car but one of his own make; he wouldn't have liked it. They lowered the coffin into a hole in the wet, clayey mud. The rain came down in buckets while the police hustled 20,000 sightseers on their way and opened the highway again to traffic. The cars rushed past, filling...
...before the war ended, Edsel died and a spirit died in the old man. He was 80. One day, trotting in his usual fashion from his car to the Administration Building, he tripped and fell face down on the grass. Thereafter he walked. Edsel's son, Henry II, came home from the Navy to run the empire. An attack of acute indigestion almost finished the old man. He puttered around his Georgia plantation and Greenfield Village and the museum...
Before he acted, Khoury's mind began to wander. When one close friend visited the President's house to inquire after his health, Khoury meandered into the room in his nightdress, asked "And who is this?" Once, when he was being taken to his car for a visit to the doctor, he refused to enter, saying that he must take his eggplants with...
...clothing is higher in many places. Gas ranges and refrigerators are up sharply. The used-car market shows that customers will pay through the nose if they are choosy. Light cars dating from the early '40s are $200 to $350 above the former ceilings-at what had been black-market prices. But vintage models of the early '30s rust in the lots, and heavy cars of any age are at a heavy discount...
Roszika Dolly, of the once-famed Dolly Sisters, who danced from World War I right on through the '20s, survived a derailment of the Santa Fe's Super Chief near Raton, N.Mex. The car she was in overturned; Roszika, now Mrs. Irving Netcher, and 54, broke her left arm. Police fished through the wreckage and recovered her jewels-about $300,000 worth...