Word: cars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...duplicate bridge and a lively tournament post-mortem of the play over coffee and ice cream in the Hotel Kansan snackshop, the Purple Cow. It was past midnight in Topeka as Democrat Docking paid the bill, escorted Virginia to his state-owned Cadillac outside, helped her into the car, slid into the driver's seat and purred off into the night...
Nuts & Jolts. In the Docking bid were such jolts as a 1? reduction in gasoline taxes (to be offset by a truck ton-mile tax), which pleased the oil companies, the railroads and plain, ordinary car owners; a 5% salary increase for state college and university teachers; slightly bigger corporation taxes, which outraged business but pleased Kansas' growing labor unions. Chuckles old Banker Docking: "This is one of those bankers' Machiavellian ideas. I dreamed up the gas tax-reduction plan all by myself, and later some of my people tried to talk me out of it. I said...
...life ambition was to get a car. They promised him one but always fell down on their promises. He has a car now and will kill anybody who tries to take it from...
...jail, Herman Joseph Flood Jr., 20, confessed. His motive, he said, was robbery. His take: $5. What had brought him back to the scene (in a stolen car)? Said Killer Flood: "I kept hearing that announcement over the radio...
Undergraduates are required to report their new car license registration numbers with the University. Registration of new numbers may be done at the University Police Office in Grays Hall or with the House Superintendents...