Word: carful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cooks were grumpily boiling vegetables without it-just like the damyankees. But you could get things, Mac. If you wanted to load up on wine, gin, rum or all three you could get a bottle of Scotch. You could get a new automobile by trading in your used car for a reasonable price-say about nine dollars. In San Francisco one John M. McLachlan got a used bathtub for only $8.25 above the ceiling price by buying a medicine cabinet, an ironing board, a garage-door handle and a heap of panel molding with...
Wise Wampum. Then there was barter. A car would get you an apartment and an apartment would get you a car. A butcher in Atlanta was doing well in the house construction game-meat got him nails, flooring, plumbing fixtures when other builders were shut down tight. World
...automobile from the Russian Kommandatura was supposed to come for them at five o'clock. For an hour the three nervous churchmen, their long, greying beards straggling down the breasts of their black gowns, shifted from one foot to the other on their doorstep. The car arrived at 6:30. They still had no passports. In fact, they had never received the written invitation from the Patriarch. But they had had several telephone calls from the Kommandatura's suave Colonel Alexander Tulpanov, telling them that the Patriarch was awaiting them impatiently...
...next ranch. Thenceforth he found it all but impossible to keep on writing at all. When their servants left to do war work, the O'Neills in their big establishment were stranded as literally as a beached vessel. (Neither of them has ever learned to drive a car...
...night when his rich employers are vacationing in Florida, the butler borrows his absent boss's dress suit and town car to play gentleman (he isn't really a butler at heart, of course-only an unsuccessful painter). Before he knows it, he has rescued a lady in danger (Ella Raines) by indiscreetly signing a hot check for $103,000 payable to a tough-skinned, softhearted gambling king (William Bendix...