Word: carse
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The basic gasoline ration was canceled last week bringing nearly a million pleasure cars to a quick stop. Britons were forbidden to travel abroad for pleasure and 30,000 vacation trips to Switzerland were promptly cancelled. At Buckingham Palace, all plans for an overseas honeymoon for Princess Elizabeth were hastily...
¶Streets around general headquarters, previously limited to staff cars, were opened to traffic.
Train Trouble. Of course the Russians, though soothed by the fact that all of Finland's wartime anti-Russian leaders are in jail, or otherwise out of action, can still be annoying. Recently the Finns asked Moscow to let them run five trains a day in each direction across...
Benefactor No. 2 was Dick Skeen, one of the shrewdest teaching pros in the business. For $25 down and $5 a month, he began teaching young Jake how to swing a tennis racket. Each day, the youngster spent three hours on trolley cars, traveling the 18 miles between his home...
Cried he: "Thousands of cars could be freed by a single decision-if old-line railroad managements would act. . . . There is good reason to believe that by lifting deliberate freight slowdowns on the roads that still practice them, we could provide more cars this summer and fall than our shops...