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Word: carse (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Race to Safety. As the flaming truck rolled, driverless, to a stop, scores of trucks and cars jammed up behind it. Coughing, half-blinded, their drivers and passengers got out and began running for safety; somehow, all got out alive. Within minutes the blocked section of tunnel, 18 ft. below...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DISASTER: Blood Clot | 5/23/1949 | See Source »

Berliners were happy, but they did not dance in the streets. A few hundred, with garlands of lilac and forsythia, waited quietly under a bright moon to welcome the first motor traffic from the free West. That honor went to U.S. correspondents, who staged a pressmen's circus, racing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: Journey to the West | 5/23/1949 | See Source »

Beyond the Policemen. Shortly after crossing the muddy Elbe near Magdeburg, we began to see evidences of the blockade's end. On sidings were long strings of freight cars with glistening loads of Ruhr coal and machinery. There was a stir of excitement-we were pulling into the Soviet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: Journey to the West | 5/23/1949 | See Source »

Into Chicago's Congress Hotel one night last week trooped some 200 members of the Greater Chicago Used Car Dealers Association. They were a gloomy lot. Their sales had dropped steadily since autumn; with plenty of new cars around, used-car prices had plummeted as much as one-third...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: No Sale | 5/23/1949 | See Source »

It was the same all over the U.S. Along Detroit's Livernois Avenue, the used-car center of the Midwest, buyers were scarce. Bert Baker, one of the biggest U.S. independent dealers in the business, had gone $96,000 into the red since November and his huge lot looked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: No Sale | 5/23/1949 | See Source »

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