Word: carse
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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¶ In snow-clogged Brooklyn, boys built snow booby traps across freshly plowed streets, patiently waited for drivers to get stuck. Then they shoveled the cars out-for $1.
Era of Competition. After soaring speculation came the crash; British railways settled down to healthy competition. In World War I competing railways had to cooperate, under national control. Then Britain's 123 lines were amalgamated into four great groups (the London, Midland & Scottish, the London & North Eastern, the Great...
Off the smoothly rolling production lines came 17,000,000 radios, 3,000,000 vacuum cleaners and 3,500,000 washing machines, about double prewar production. The automobile industry crowded its throttle; 4,794,000 cars and trucks rolled off the lines. It was a gain of 55% over 1946...
In the great peacetime battle of production, Henry Kaiser got back some of the luster of his wartime fame. His Willow Run plant turned out 145,000 cars and he was able to brag in full-page ads that he was now "the world's fourth largest producer of...
The Shape of '48. In all the rosy predictions there was one big imponderable-the European Recovery Plan. The final shape of ERP would do more than anything else to shape the economy in 1948. Against 1947's exports, the demands for ERP for the first 15 months...