Word: carly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Interested Party. In Texarkana, Ark., hospital bound in a careening police car, a badly injured would-be suicide came to long enough to caution the driver: "Gosh you'll kill...
...Caspar Dutra and his wife "Dona Santinha." Sitting side by side, the two Presidents drove for six miles along the flag-lined streets between long lines of Brazilian soldiery. Cheering crowds lined every inch of the way. Blizzards of paper fell from the taller buildings. Standing up in the car, Harry Truman waved amiably to yells of "Salve...
...Moment. There was one incident that gave Brazilians a bad moment. Driving up into the mountains to lunch with Ernesto G. Fontes, a wealthy Brazilian businessman who had also entertained Franklin Roosevelt on his visit to Brazil in 1936, the President's heavy car skidded on the slippery road. The left rear wheel went over a low curb and came to rest a few feet from a precipitous decline. Truman refused to get out as Secret Service men heaved the car back on to the road. Said Harry Truman: "I'm all right. Why, I have done...
...some 800 passengers on the westbound Minaki Special, it was summer's end; from camps and lodges of the Lake of the Woods country, they were heading for Winnipeg and home. On red and green plush seats, fathers, mothers and children drowsed, while the 13-car special, behind schedule, pounded along...
Bedtime Boost. The Pullman Co., now owned by a group of 57 railroads, asked the Interstate Commerce Commission for authority to boost all sleeping-car rates under $17.70 from 1% to 49%. The increases would amount to about $13 million a year. This, said the company, would be little enough considering the drop in annual revenues of $31 million compared with 1944, and a rise in costs of $26 million a year since 1942, the year of its last general fare boost...