Word: carful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...complex and controversial facts & figures of world trade so they could be presented honestly and clearly to U.S. citizens, the Advertising Council's campaign is under way via a series of newspaper and magazine advertisements (the one shown here is titled: Look . . . How Main Street Has Grown!), posters, car cards, billboard sheets, and a campaign guide that has gone out to leading advertisers, ad agencies, leading newspapers, magazines and radio...
...Manhattan hospital ever since an operation on his neck last November, finally went home. In his famous camel's hair coat & cap he didn't look bad to the camera's eye (see cut), but two people helped him walk from the hospital entrance to his car. "I'm going home for a little vacation," he said. "... I want to look at the river...
...postwar ride of the U.S. economy to peacetime heights, everybody seemed to forget the fact that the glittering boom was carried in the lowly freight car. Last week nobody could overlook the fact...
Across the U.S., loading platforms and warehouses were jampacked with marooned goods. Shippers of everything from cement to washing machines frantically called for freight cars; some were lucky to get 10% of their minimum needs. In the Midwest, grain belt farmers stared nervously at grain-choked elevators, wondered whether they would be cleared before 1947 crops came in. It was the worst freight-car shortage in 25 years...
Hunt for a Villain. In Washington, a Senate committee was shrilly trying to find out why. ODT's J. Monroe Johnson led off by accusing 1) CPA, for not allocating enough steel for cars and 2) the railroads, for not ordering enough cars. With the U.S. in immediate need of 100,000 freight cars, railroads have so far placed orders for only 78,000. What the railroads should do, said Johnson, was order at least 250,000. That would make it worthwhile for car companies to set up mass production lines...