Word: carse
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Scrounging for cars, liquor, housing and hamburgers took a lot of the people's time and kept their minds off their work (see above). But when they paused to think about it-well, they had had about enough.
Bumper to bumper, thousands of Detroit cars nosed through the Detroit-Windsor tunnel. They were headed across the border for Canadian steaks. In Windsor, Vancouver, Niagara Falls and other border towns, Americans ate luscious two-inch steak dinners for $2 or less. U.S. newspapers, running pictures of the lucky feeders...
Detroit's automakers were the hardest hit. Last week, Chevrolet production dropped from 12,347 to 7,792. Briggs Manufacturing Co., which makes bodies for Chrysler and Packard, laid off 7,000 workers, cut schedules in half. Result: Chrysler cut its daily production from 3,600 to 2,775...
No one knew for sure when the workers would be rehired. Said Briggs: perhaps January, perhaps not till April. The industry had hoped to turn out 500,000 cars in October. Instead, Ward's automotive reports estimated that production would now be only 356,000, down to where it...
"For the benefit of those attending the Harvard-Princeton game Saturday," the railroad will run special coach trains from Pennsylvania Station to Princeton. Equipped with refreshment cars, and coach lunch service for hungry travelers, they will leave New York between 11:10 o'clock in the morning and 12:15...