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Word: carse (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Without these clearances, the bigwigs gloomily predicted that the first cars may not roll out till as late as nine months after V-E day. Added G.M.'s Wilson: Home Front Tsar Jimmy Byrnes must have "misunderstood" the problem when he blithely predicted cars within three months after Germany...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: Nine Months or Two | 10/9/1944 | See Source »

High Gear for Ford. Next day the newsmen traveled to Willow Run, sat down with Ford executives for lunch. There they got a shock. Ray Rausch, the plump, candid production boss of the Rouge plant, calmly predicted that the Ford company would turn out its first cars two months after...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: Nine Months or Two | 10/9/1944 | See Source »

From this tunnel, while the bands played, the crowd cheered, cowbells rattled in the upper tiers, the Deweys appeared, in a cream-colored touring car, flanked by eight motorcycle cops. Said the script: "After Governor Dewey enters, Von Zell brings many stars to the microphone to describe the scene during...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: Crucial Week | 10/2/1944 | See Source »

Good Intentions. In the fourth month of Rome's occupation, Italians were hungry, dirty, ragged and undecided. Premier Ivanoe Bonomi's six-party government was bumblingly, quarrelsomely impotent, unable even to impose order. It had no system of communication with the provinces. It lacked even the cars and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Sick | 10/2/1944 | See Source »

Italy was also a land of contrasts. In Rome iridescent socialites decayed in amiable dolce far niente. In Florence amid hunger and ruins a mayor was installed with Renaissance pomp & pageantry (see cut). Italy was also a land going into a climactic winter for which it had not enough of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Sick | 10/2/1944 | See Source »

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