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Word: carse (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, however, it netted a whopper -the biggest used car ring. In 18 months it had handled about 5,000 cars, worth $4,000,000 at ceiling prices, sold them for $7,000,000. The technique: buying from individuals in auto-jammed Detroit, selling to the auto-hungry mid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PEOPLE: Scofflaws | 5/6/1946 | See Source »

The Real Thing. Across 70 miles of Red River Valley flatlands, past fields of new-seeded wheat, he and Anderson drove to Climax, Minn. (pop. 253). Some 3,000 farmers, wives & children turned out to see them. They watched wheat being loaded into a Northern Pacific train. "This is as...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOOD: Butch Goes West | 5/6/1946 | See Source »

The Solid Fuels Administration's local offices were swamped by requests from large & small businesses for "just one car of coal." SFA had only 23,000 cars left (a little less than a normal day's mining) of the 33,000 it had hoarded at the strike'...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PRODUCTION: Crunch--and Crisis | 5/6/1946 | See Source »

From Fords to Field Glasses. Their first new venture, while still in college, was car building. A Cambridge company was buying new Ford cars, discarding the bodies, and building the chassis into trucks. Henderson & Moore bought the bodies, put them on old Ford chassis. The finished products looked like new...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOTELS: A Giant -- & Still Growing | 4/29/1946 | See Source »

Do subway riders star at you? Does the "Harvard look" make then edge away or give your foot an extra trampling? How does the man under the street feel about Harvard men as his fellow handle clutcher? Over the roar of awaying cars, 25 travelers of the tunnels of the...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: With Gals Who Know Commuters Best, It's Harvard By a Dime | 4/27/1946 | See Source »

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