Word: carse
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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City on Wheels. Los Angeles became the first big city of the automobile age. Its citizens worship the fishtail Cadillac, use their cars for almost all transportation (there is one car for every 2.6 persons-the nation's highest average), drive up to traffic lights like ballplayers sliding into...
Last week the Nassau County (N.Y.) Transit Commission, an unsalaried board of seven prominent citizens appointed by the Republican New York State Legislature, said indignantly that the commuters were right. The Pennsy, the commission found, had milked the Long Island of upwards of $2,000,000 a year in intracompany...
Pay Dirt Farther Down. For any businessmen not acutely aware that many prices were still too high, the Federal Reserve Board had some enlightenment. In a survey made early this year, FRB reported that consumers had almost as much cash as the year before, but were less ready to spend...
Growing Pains. Most ozoners get by nicely with old movies, but many are clamoring for a chance to show the latest pictures: four Illinois drive-ins are suing for earlier showings. Another growing pain: at least three state legislatures are talking about regulating or taxing the drive-ins, and some...
Though the weather holds most ozoners down to a 30-week season, except in such places as California and Florida, some install portable electric heaters in each car. This season an engineer has stepped forward with the last word-an air-conditioning scheme that will keep the cars not only...