Word: drove
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...beaten him with wealthy Oilman Edward H. Moore, had thus elected their first Senator since 1924 and their third since Oklahoma became a State in 1907. Senator-Elect Moore, 71, is a onetime farm boy who worked his way through Chillicothe Normal as a janitor, taught rural schools, drove his horse nine miles to study law in Kansas City at night, finally struck it rich with a $2,000,000 Oklahoma oilfield...
...French Fleet in 1940, were also flanked. The main landings were at Arzew, on a promontory 25 miles northeast of Oran. On the narrow, easily accessible shore between the hills and the sea, other forces seized Bou Sfer and Cap Signale, west of the city. Then they drove for: 1) Oran's four airdromes, 2) the parallel railway and highway coursing down the coastal plain. By land, on the flanks and in the rear of the historic city, the encirclement was swift and totally effective...
...usual Monday program of labs and mil sci drills kept the squad at skeleton strength, but Harlow drove his B and C team players through a long scrimmage, working out with a white ball until long after dusk...
...Institution Vindicated. In Minneapolis, Mrs. Robert I. Birch got her husband acquitted on a charge of driving past a stop sign by telling the judge she always drove from the back seat and would certainly never let him do such a thing...
...Gianninis-never known to throw away a dollar-drove good bargains on all three deals. Reason: like many war babies, the companies were short on working capital and long on excess-profits taxes. But in the Transamerica fold they have millions of working capital at their corporate fingertips, and the tax shield of Transamerica's hefty excess-profits tax exemption. Profits from the Adel plant may triple because the tax rate will be slashed from Adel's 80% to Transamerica...