Word: carful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...circuit (100-200 miles) the car doubles back, visits each hamlet ten times before the school year ends in June. This adds up to a rugged schedule for the seven teachers. But even with a top salary of $2,000 a year, the application list is long, the teacher turnover light...
...week long classes are held; then the teacher hands out enough homework to keep pupils busy for four or five weeks. The school car is hooked on to another train, rolls on to the next spur, stays a week, moves...
...school-car teachers, housing is no problem: one end of the car is fitted up as a living-bedroom, kitchen, bathroom. The Government supplies all equipment, ice for the icebox, oil for the lamps, coal to keep the car warm when temperature nips around 55° below. Passing trains drop off magazines and newspapers. Main out-of-pocket expense: food, which is bought along...
George White, 53, had seen better days. In San Diego, the onetime millionaire producer of high-priced Broadway revues (the Scandals) got a one-year prison term and $600 fine for hit-&-run driving. He had been asleep at the wheel, he said, when his car killed a honeymoon couple a month ago. The fine was paid by an exmarine, who said he was doing it because the showman had sent him parcels in a Jap prison camp. White said his own bankroll was only...
Eleanor Roosevelt, who had dozed at the wheel of her new Lincoln sedan, came out of a three-way smashup with her appearance changed a bit but her sense of humor intact. Bowling down to Manhattan from Hyde Park she had crossed the white line, smacked one car headon, sideswiped another. Four people besides herself were bunged up. "I myself am quite well," she reported promptly in her column, "though for some time I shall look as though I had been in a football game without having taken any training. My eyes are black and blue. In fact...