Word: carly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...asked an Englishman when he expected to get his new car, however, and he said 'three years.' He may have to wait six years, and as a result the used car market in Britain (there is up to a 100% purchase tax on new cars) is flourishing. I saw a 1936 Packard on sale for $4,000, and a 1947 Studebaker should bring around...
...private car (the Aleutian), California's Governor Earl Warren, a man noted for his hearty friendliness, chatted with newsmen, read some pages of Winston Churchill's The Gathering Storm, leisurely drank three bourbon highballs before dinner. By midnight, as the train headed toward Utah, he was asleep...
...car "VicePresidential Special" was off on a 31-day tour. Candidate Warren planned to make 25 speeches and 57 platform appearances in 30 of the 48 states. A politician of considerable consistency, he had set the tone and spirit of his campaign within the first 24 hours...
This week, Tom Dewey took to the road in his 15-car "Victory Special." His confidence bordered on cockiness as he began a 13-state swing through the West. He was unruffled by the Truman barbs, undisturbed by the size of the Truman crowds...
Waving goodbye from the platform of his spic & span railway car, hitched on to a string of 16 other railway cars, Harry Truman rolled out of Washington on his 9,000-mile coast to coast tour...