Word: carse
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Two carloads of deputies screeched to the curb. Holding back the crowd at pistol point, they threw the ballot box into one of the cars and carried it off to the jail for their own brand of safe counting.
Now housing is being constructed at snail's pace; most building materials are being exported for money. There are few new cars, radios, and clothes: here again, the overseas market is being served first. Nor is there much chance that the situation will improve in the near future, for England...
¶Detroit's automakers last week set a postwar record with 80,439 cars and trucks; this week they expected to do better by at least 5,000.
Bob Young's solution was an "efficient, new sleeping car company. . . . We will gladly release all the new cars we purchase to any independently operated pool that will [make] modern sleeping car equipment available to all railroads, at reasonable cost. What roads will cooperate. . .?"
But there was trouble ahead. A shortage in freight cars was already pinching production. Last week Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corp. had to close down six open-hearth furnaces; the Carnegie plant at Gary, Ind. had 14,000 tons of finished steel waiting to be shipped. Reason for the car shortage...