Word: charter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Robinson family-four boys and a girl-grew up on Pepper Street in the poor section of well-to-do Pasadena. They never knew their father (mother still doesn't talk about him). To support the kids, mother Robinson took in washing & ironing. Jackie, the youngest, was a charter member of the Pepper Street Gang, half a dozen Negroes and three or four American-Japanese who liked to break street lamps and watch the changing colors of the shattered bulbs. "It was awful pretty," recalls Jackie...
Helicopter Cab. The Yellow Cab Co. of Cleveland got the first franchise for a regular scheduled helicopter taxi service. (Several charter taxi services are already operating.) Yellow Cab's projected helicopter runs will be between Cleveland Municipal Airport, downtown Cleveland and two suburban areas...
...Have the Conservatives no policy? They have; a very bad one. Their industrial charter [a pamphlet outlining party policy] accepts a considerable degree of socialization. Have I hope? Yes, some Elijah or Elisha will arise and the structure of this Empire will be reconstituted, its resources will be developed and its prosperity will be expanded...
...closing speech at Geneva, Britain's Representative Harold Wilson forecast the future: "The methods we may have to use in the intervening months and years may appear to be opposed to the principles and methods of the draft [free trade] charter." Then Wilson returned to London and was even more specific: "We shall be working on bilateral agreements instead of multilateral." This meant that Britain, the second greatest trading nation in the world, would still be tied to the ideas of blocked currency and barter agreements that had been developed by Hitler's Dr. Hjalmar Schacht...
...were sober history. Taught the right way, legends could make history livelier, at the same time show the youngsters how to recognize bias, exaggeration, propaganda. Among the great American fact-&-fiction stories on Thursfield's list: Isabella pawning her jewels to finance Columbus, the hiding of the Connecticut Charter in the Charter Oak, the exploits of Daniel Boone, the saving of Oregon by Marcus Whitman, the Lincoln-Ann Rutledge romance...