Word: cars
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Charlie's sudden wealth reached $2,500, he had an inspirational idea: he picked up the telephone and invited the whole Packard Motor Car Co. to come out and have a beer. "I'm going to buy my wife some new clothes," he cried, "and get drunk for a week. Then I'm going to buy her a Mixmaster and get drunk again...
...long, people kept coming to Charlie Monak's house in Detroit with handfuls of green, crumpled-up folding money. By noon he had $2,000. Charlie, a Packard Motor Car Co. dynamometer tester, ordered in two barrels of beer and plenty of whisky to go with it. As the money flowed in last week, everybody drank, yelled and danced around the front room...
...mayor and the village clerk were both away when sleek, dark-suited Willem Johannes Janse van Rensburg rolled importantly into dusty Hennenman in a big car marked with the official Gs of government service. But Rensburg was not one to wait on protocol. With one stern glance about the little (pop. 1,146) Orange Free State village, he commandeered a likely office, announced to the assembled villagers that he was the new government health inspector and asked for complaints...
...sentry tower above the historic Pa (native Maori fortress) near Auckland, New Zealand, a single Maori warrior stood waiting. When the government car rounded a bend in the road, he called the traditional chant of welcome and challenge. A tall, bronzed man stepped from the car and picked up the ax that the sentry tossed toward him. At this gesture (the time-honored sign to show that a visit is peaceful) hundreds of Maoris in native costume sang their ancient haka, song of welcome...
...seasickness cure was discovered by accident. The drug was developed three years ago, by Chicago's G. D. Searle & Co., as a treatment for allergy. A year ago Drs. Gay and Carliner gave it to Mrs. Genevieve Ciesielski, of Baltimore, who suffered from hives and, incidentally, from car sickness. It cleared up both...