Word: carful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Chicago's Loop was clogged with honking automobiles and pushing shoppers; the Indianapolis street railway had to put every last car in service to handle the great crowds, and Seattle had one of the biggest downtown traffic jams in history...
...York adventures began, after five days of entertainment in Washington (TiME, Nov. 28), as he rode from the Battery to City Hall in an open car (drawing a street crowd of 200,000 and a flattering paper shower) to receive an official reception from Mayor William O'Dwyer. In 72 hours he spoke at three banquets and three luncheons, paid post-midnight calls on a series of nightclubs, went to three museums, visited the Arab library at Princeton University and inspected the pressrooms of the Newark News...
...went with him on a cross-country honeymoon tour. Seamans describes the trip through a Nebraska rainstorm: "The windshield was down, the top blew off, and it was like riding in a bathtub. The highest point in the car was the steering wheel...
...automobile had done an additional 20,000 miles when it was sold to Putnam in 1946. Early this year Putnam sold it to Post. The speedometer now reads over 100,000 miles, but Post feels that the car is still good for another ten years...
Remarkably responsive to the touch, the car has a personality of its own, Post insists: "Completely friendly...