Word: carful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Change of Pace. In Hilo, Hawaii, Dr. William F. Leslie, after losing 1) one automobile in a tidal wave, 2) his second car in a storm, 3) his third new car in a dock accident, announced that he was in the market for a horse & buggy...
Many of you will recall the War Advertising Council, which was created to furnish the Government (free of charge) with a centralized organization, including advertising agencies, advertisers, and all media (newspapers, magazines, radio, billboards, car cards, etc.) through which national campaigns could be put quickly and economically before as large an audience as possible. This was the organization that built the campaigns for war bonds, salvage, and the multitude of other emergency problems presented to the American public during the war years...
Tourism looked better & better. Into the Dominion last year flocked some 5,250,000 tourists (plus uncounted millions of transients who stayed less than 24 hours). Most traveled by car, but 715,000 came by train, 340,000 by boat, 310,-ooo by bus, 100,000 by plane. Last week, the Dominion Bureau of Statistics totted up the year's take: $212 million (7% over the previous high in 1929), and all but $5 million from the pockets of U.S. tourists...
Next night 20 Reed undergrads, each armed with a volume of poetry, gathered on a downtown Portland street corner by moonlight and solemnly read Shelley together. A police car passed; but no arrests were made...
Winter ice annually brings a spurt to auto accidents. Last Friday, for example, a passenger car pinned two taxicab riders in a night time smashup. After all efforts to extricate the trapped victims had proved unsuccessful the rescue truck arrived at the scene and exacted an escape...