Word: dreaming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Mortician's Dream. In 1948, Frank Curtin bought a small farmhouse on a 1½-acre lot near Falls Church, and began to build a $42,500 home there. Two years later, he was dismayed to find that Gravedigger Marlowe had bought 63 acres to the east and south of his land, and was planning to extend National Memorial Park to the Curtin fenceline. Citing an old Virginia law that prohibits cemeteries closer than 750 ft. to residences, Curtin argued the matter in court. The court ruled that the law did not apply to existing cemeteries, and National Park...
...Winston, beguiled by an old man's dream of arranging the world's affairs in time of peace as he had done in war, had done no good to his government's case, or to its allies. What his own personal case really was, whether it grew out of a senescent's dream or nostalgia or hard thinking, no one seemed to know...
...Pipe Dream. VacCo Pump Co., Inc. of Indianapolis brought out a new type of pump for unclogging household drains. Working on the principle of the old-fashioned plunger, the Pull-It Pump can build up a vacuum of 15 inches with the help of a vacuum valve inside the rubber force cup. Price...
...current shelves, Victor's Music to Help You Sleep offers such sentimental oldies as Beautiful Dreamer, Love Walked In and several more, with a come-hither jacket picture of a redhead in negligee perched on the edge of bed. Columbia's Dream Time Music by Paul Weston offers Embraceable You, Over the Rainbow, Why Shouldn't I?, etc., with a disheveled, shirtless brunette striding through a misty landscape...
Still a G.M. man at heart, Nordhoff was scornful of Volkswagen and the shattered Hitlerian dream it represented. Says he: "I wanted nothing to do with that cheap competition." The British were insistent; they wanted him to take over the plant to provide employment for the depressed Wolfsburg area and produce vehicles for their army. Pressed by the hard facts of occupation life, Nordhoff agreed. Said he: "The future begins when you cut every tie with the lost past...