Word: drove
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...David Hotelling, 10, of Napa, Calif., realized a child's dream. He had saved enough pennies (selling Christmas cards and doing chores) to make a bid of $25 at an auction of outmoded fire equipment, drove off in a red 1926 fire engine...
...Four straight days of heavy rains brimmed over the Ohio River, drove 31,000 people from their homes, cost, seven lives. The flood was one of the highest in Ohio River history, but it was no disaster. Thanks to control dams, Cincinnati's flood was confined mostly to its downtown riverfront lowlands. Other river towns-Marietta and Pomeroy, Ohio, Wheeling and Parkersburg, W.Va.-weren't so lucky...
Reopened Door. After months of negotiations Cities Service Co., and Antonio Bermudez, boss of Mexico's government-owned oil monopoly Pemex, signed a historic agreement in Mexico City. The deal brought a major U.S. oil company into Mexican oil development for the first time since 1938, when expropriation drove most foreign companies out. Under the deal Cities Service will set up a Mexican subsidiary (Mexico-Cities Service Petroleum Corp.) to provide the capital, and presumably the machinery and technical help, for Pemex's development of a million-acre tract in northeastern Mexico...
...afternoon the word spread: Gaitán was dead. The mob, which had quieted under the efficient handling of federal troops, went mad. Its members drove into the Cundinamarca building (provincial capitol), set fire to Gómez' Conservative newspaper El Siglo. They hurled stones through the windows of the President's palace. Across the city (pop. 400,000) smoke swirled from mob-struck buildings. Federal troops and police were powerless...
Edgar Rice Burroughs, biographer of Tarzan, drove his Buick convertible out of the driveway of his home in Tarzana, Calif., was thereupon struck by another Buick convertible which had just been struck by yet another Buick convertible. The autos were injured; 72-year-old Burroughs was not scratched...