Word: cars
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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West Point is a rugged place to reach by any public transportation. Unless you have your own car or a chartered bus, you have to touch at New York or Albany and change conveyances...
Next day the Hungarian Communist-controlled cabinet issued an order seizing MAORT on charges of "economic sabotage." The day after, Ruedemann and Bannantine were notified that they had been expelled from Hungary. In a fast car, police took them from 60 Andrassy Ut to the Austrian border, unceremoniously ordered them over the line. It was the seventh day since their arrest. Six days later they were in Washington, reporting to the U.S. Government while wondering what could be done about the $25 million that American shareholders had lost in MAORT's seizure...
Last week a pack of youngsters in the Gorbals ran from a Communist election rally to follow a Labor Party car (see cut). At the polls their elders did virtually the same, even though Labor has done little more than the Tories ever did for the Gorbals. Alice Cullen, Labor's candidate, won by a 6,525-vote margin over the Conservative candidate.The Communists, after an all-out campaign, got 17% of the vote. Said one Labor Party official in smug satisfaction: "We've still held our record of never losing a seat at a by-election since...
...were mighty proud that Choo Choo, in this age of interstate commerce in footballers, was a native North Carolinian. Prosperous alumni, who pour about $100,000 yearly into a football fund, convinced him of the virtues of staying at home. Like many football heroes, Choo Choo drives a new car. He and his family live in a cozy bungalow off Chapel Hill's main street. After he graduates, a loyal alumnus has promised to set him up with an automobile dealership...
...wilting badly. Cluett, Peabody sales, which reached a peak of $32 million in 1919, had been based on the Arrow Collar, as worn by women, and the clean-shaven, cleft-chinned Arrow Collar Man, a creation of Artist Joseph Leyendecker. From a million billboards and car cards, his coldly correct profile mounted on an Arrow choker gave feminine hearts a guide to male perfection. Like his culture mate, the tightly corseted Gibson Girl, the Arrow Collar Man disappeared from ads as men turned to the soft, collar-attached shirt. Cluett, Peabody almost vanished with...