Word: carly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Complaint Dept. In Colorado Springs, G. E. Dell recovered his stolen 1939 sedan with a surly note from the thief: "Your car ain't no damn good...
...going to campaign as the champion of labor. Six days before Labor Day, he fired off a message calling for repeal of the Taft-Hartley law, extension of social security and health insurance, an increased minimum wage (from 40? to 75?). Then he climbed aboard his newly refurbished railroad car, the Ferdinand Magellan, to carry his message to a joint A.F.L. and C.I.O. rally in Detroit, to four other Michigan cities, and Toledo...
...Birmingham, Ala., Public Safety Commissioner Eugene ("Bull") Connor was on record: "I ain't gonna let no darkies and white folk segregate together in this town." While Wallace waited in his car near by, a representative announced that he would not speak to any meeting that "violates the right of free assembly"-meaning a segregated meeting. A volley of eggs sailed over his head. A small, angry group found Wallace's car, thumped fists on its fenders, took turns glaring through the windows. "Look at that guy," said one. "He can't even afford...
...from the Atlantic shore, and rode 670 ft. down in a coal cage in less than a minute. Because the seams run far under Glace Bay, Tossy's Orphean journey was just beginning. Next came a long ride in a motor rake (a train of coal cars pulled by an electric locomotive) to a point 1,800 ft. below the sea bed. Then, on the No. 6 incline rake (a cable car), Tossy rode 6,000 ft. down a 12° grade. Finally, he walked a quarter-mile to the coal face, four miles out under...
...notable success - persuading Cardinal O'Connell to sign a joint statement with him condemning the 1942-43 wave of anti-Semitism in Boston-and one small failure, in his drive for ever-increasing personal efficiency. The latter was his scheme for hooking a dictation machine, to his car battery, so that he could park at spare moments and dash off a few letters. After finding himself marooned a few times with a dead battery, he abandoned the experiment. But he was the first bishop in the area's history to visit all 800 of its Methodist churches...