Word: carful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...detail had been spared to make their trip a success, no chance overlooked to display Britain's manufacturing prowess. In Portsmouth harbor, Britain's vastest, newest battleship, the 42,500-ton Vanguard, was laden with three vanloads of baggage, a refrigerator freight car full of choice game. Five Vickers Viking planes equipped with the latest safety gadgets, four dozen or so sleek, new Daimler, Austin and Humber motorcars, a 14-coach, ivory-and-gold train, complete with telephones, offices, kitchens, salons and armor-plate windows had been shipped ahead. The Vanguard herself was tricked out with curtains, carpets...
...civil law marriage), Margarita Richardi de Avila Camacho, missed the plane that was to whisk them (via Manhattan) to Rome for a Catholic Church wedding. Señora Vélez is the widow of Maximino Avila Camacho, fabulously wealthy brother of Mexico's wartime president. As the car with its police escort left for the airport, another car drew abreast, poured in a fusillade of 22 Tommy-gun slugs. Vélez and his wife were wounded; her sister-in-law was killed. Jailed for questioning, Luis Avila Binder, Maximino's son by another wife, charged that...
...Birney Crum is the most esteemed of Allentown's 96,904 citizens. When his boys copped the Pennsylvania state basketball championship two years ago, the city gave him a $1,000 war bond and a watch. His gift for repeating last year: a new car...
...year at Newport, in a 40-room Tudor-style house, "Fairholme," where a picture of Napoleon by David hangs in his room. From there, he usually goes to New York each Monday night, goes back each Thursday night. As befits a railroad baron, he always travels in his private car. His Cleveland office is a Kubla Khanish relic of the Van Sweringens. But his offices in Manhattan's Chrysler Building are small and unlisted on the building directory. He does not need a large office because "I carry the business in my head...
Consumers could hardly believe what their pocketbooks told them. On scores of items last week, prices were coming down. The big surprise was in autos. Thanks to the tremendous demand, there had been plenty of talk in Detroit of another boost in car prices all around...