Word: carse
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, as the massive Columbia shouldered against its banks, surged muddily over low-lying farmland and gnawed at its retaining dikes, the people of Vanport got a warning: the Columbia was 15 feet above flood level, highest in 54 years. It might overflow. One afternoon it did. The railroad...
Two days later 5,500 men & women, mostly from New York City, descended on Washington in three special trains, chartered buses, private cars and planes. They had a field day. They invaded the Senate office building, picketed the White House and caused a disturbance in a restaurant which bans Negroes...
At Indianapolis, there is always more excited talk about the man who might have won the famed "500 Mile" auto race than the man who actually wins. Last week the most prominent loser was carefree Duke Nalon, an old hand at jockeying high-powered racing cars at blurring speed.
By June 18, when the cars go on display in dealers' showrooms, Ford expects to have production up to 3,786 a day. Even at that, said Sales Director J. R. Davis, it will be 1950 and perhaps 1951 before the average customer will be able to get immediate...
Though he has publicly shown just one handmade model, Preston Tucker has somehow managed to raise over $20,000,000 to finance production of his rear-engined Tucker '48 (TIME, July 7 et seq.). Last week, Promoter Tucker announced an ingenious scheme (which the SEC is carefully watching) to...