Word: carful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...corporation that runs the oil industry. Even in the capital it was hard to get high-test gas, and when a man drove into the country he had to carry tins of the stuff or he might never get back. The gas he got often clogged feedlines, stalled the car...
...journalism's most rococo columnist, went digging for facts in Colorado, after his fashion. To mine material for another nostalgic book about his hobby, railroads, locomotive-loco Lucius, assisted only by his Manhattan roommate, a photographer, and a small, hardy retinue, braved narrow-gauge trails in a private railroad car (b. circa 1870). Like the Englishman in the jungle, Prospector Beebe dutifully dressed for dinner every night. The grub: caviar, foie gras, pheasant, champagne...
...knew for sure when the workers would be rehired. Said Briggs: perhaps January, perhaps not till April. The industry had hoped to turn out 500,000 cars in October. Instead, Ward's automotive reports estimated that production would now be only 356,000, down to where it was in August. Packard Sales Manager Lyman W. Slack gloomily predicted: "The average person simply will not be able to buy a car until well into...
...Hand. After years of mismanagement, AVCO was so close to death it was hardly breathing. Nevertheless, there were plenty who wanted a chance at the carcass. Errett Lobban Cord, a brass young auto salesman who had skyrocketed up in the golden '20s,-and put out a slinky car bearing his name-controlled AVCO. But to a cunning infighter like V.E., with the well-heeled Schroders again in his corner, it was the work of only a few months to knock out Cord* and take over the company in August...
...Production of building materials increased (plumbing fixtures were up from 20 to 35% over July). Freight-car production, still below capacity and far below demand, was nevertheless...