Word: carly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Coleman, Tex., long drought had dried up the town's only lake. Coleman was on the point of importing water by tank car when two local flyers dropped 100 lbs. of dry ice from 18,000 feet, brought a reported 2½-in. rainfall. Next day they tried again, this time produced a 1-in. fall...
Last week a smiling U.S. consul looked over Bill Dickman's completed papers, handed him his visa and wished him luck. Bill sold his car for $900. Christine Dickman's father & mother, who were going along too, sold their house. Then all of them boarded a Great Northern train for Oak Grove...
...Independence Day even Calcutta's violence turned to rejoicing. Moslems and Hindus danced together in the streets, were admitted to each others' mosques and temples. Moslems crowded round Gandhi's car to shake his hand, and sprinkled him with rosewater. For the disillusioned father of Indian independence, there might be some consolation in the rare cry he heard from Moslem lips: "Mahatma Gandhi Zindabad" (Long Live Gandhi...
...Marshall Field and Dallas' Neiman-Marcus, put up $127,000 of the $277,000 capital for Irene, Inc., of which Irene owns 51% of the common stock. Irene promptly plumped down $75,-ooo for a 12,000-square-foot factory in Culver City (four minutes by car from her M-G-M studio headquarters), plus $11,000 more for remodeling. By October she expects to be turning out Irene-designed suits at $185 to $285, street and cocktail dresses at $125 to $265, and evening gowns at $250 to $450, to be sold exclusively by her 20-store sponsors...
Robert R. Young, who knows a lot about railroads and publicity, fired another broadside last week in his campaign to "wake up the railroads." This time, his full-page ads talked about the freight-car shortage which leaves wheat piled on the ground in the Midwest. Young thought the shortage could be lessened if the roads made better use of the cars they have...