Word: carse
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The New Deal-discouraged in Louisiana by Huey-was now admitted and allowed to pour in fresh millions in WPA funds. There were big cars, parties, and champagne for all. Then the bubble blew up. Dr. James Monroe Smith, president of L.S.U., vanished one day with his party-loving wife...
Boars & Lemonade. Hard on his heels, the Republicans' Earl Warren breezed into town followed by 6,000 whooping Republicans who had come down from Chicago in four special trains and twelve buses. Governor Dwight Green had the full treatment ready for Earl: a motorcade of 25 cars, a brass...
Cars. The auto industry rolled out its 100-millionth car (the Duryea brothers built their first one in 1893). Because of suppliers' strikes, production last week was down to 102,368 cars and trucks, off 3,548 from the week before.
Designer Loewy, 52, has come a long way since he landed in New York, at 27. He has streamlined automobiles (the old Hupmobile, the present Studebaker), railroad locomotives, club cars and coaches (for the Pennsylvania and the Monon), ships (the Matson line's Lurline), airplane interiors (Constellations), fountain pens...
In this drowned world the Dutch water engineers prepared to rebuild the dikes and dry the land behind them. It was calculated that the work had to be completed before November 1945 or the damage to the island would be permanent. To accomplish it, the engineers started with four rowboats...