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Word: carful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first brisk winds of fall have brought the chilling news to student car-owners that local police are evidently resolved to crack down on all-night parking in city streets. Armed with a spanking new ordinance, officers are ready to haul away offending vehicles faster than Henry Kaiser can turn them out at Willow...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Parking | 10/7/1948 | See Source »

...Many a car owner cried that postwar models seemed to have been purposely constructed to "damage easy and repair hard." On several new cars the whole engine had to be unbolted and lifted before the crankcase pan could be removed. Fenders had become wholly or partly an integral part of body panels: before smashed fenders could be replaced, the whole panel had to be removed. A Denver dealer who sold and installed a rear fender on a 1948 model for $20.75 charged $85 for the same job on a 1949 model of the same car...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRANSPORTATION: The Bridegroom's Lament | 10/4/1948 | See Source »

...Earley, a 34-year-old factory guard, chided the Indians for dedicating "nights" to several players, suggested that the club hold a "Good Old Joe Earley Night." The ball club took him up on it, scheduled the "night" for this week, decided to give Joe Earley a car (1914 model), horse, cow and chickens...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Americana, Oct. 4, 1948 | 10/4/1948 | See Source »

...former Foreign Minister U Tin Tut. He resigned from the government to head a loyal "Burmese Auxiliary Force" to fight the rebels.* One day last month, as he started to drive away from the office of the English-language New Times of Burma, a bomb planted in his car blew it to pieces. Tin Tut died two days later (TIME, Sept...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BURMA: Yogi v. Commissars | 10/4/1948 | See Source »

...parts in two unreleased films are also villainous. In her career of screen wickedness, she has already been strangled, shot, run over by a car and sentenced to prison (as a bad girl must...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Oct. 4, 1948 | 10/4/1948 | See Source »

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