Word: fillips
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...heavily on its "revolutionary" Dynaflow automatic transmission, which has eliminated the manual shift for normal driving. This year Dynaflow is standard on Buick's big 155-h.p. Roadmaster, extra ($200) on the 120-h.p. Super. Buick's circular "venti-ports" on its front fenders, partly a styling fillip and partly for engine cooling, have already earned the Super the nickname the "three-holer" and the Roadmaster the "four-holer...
...Committee of Labor Executives for the Re-election of Truman. George M. Harrison of the Brotherhood of Railway Clerks declared that all "but two or three" presidents of A.F.L. internationals would join.* This week, the C.I.O. executive board threw its full weight to the Democratic ticket. As an added fillip, the A.D.A., which had done its best to displace the President at Philadelphia, pledged him its support. Harry Truman had cause to be heartened. At week's end, tanned and refreshed, he returned to Washington, ready to head for Detroit and the beginning of the campaign...
...extra fillip was added to the issue, however, when it was disclosed that Sproul is scheduled to leave for the Republican National Convention in Philadelphia on June 15. The convention does not begin until June 21, and Sproul denied that his convention plans had any influence in the decision to move up the commencement program...
Recipe. In St. Helens, Lancashire, Soft-Drink Merchant James P. Forrester was fined ?60 and costs for dispensing cocktails which proved to contain a fillip of chloroform...
...bizarre present that found favor in 1946 was a sequence of fourteen sonnets lettered in Old English, and illuminated, on a sheet of parchment. What gave a fillip to the toil that went into the manufacture of the gift was the fact that each sonnet described an outing or incident the Middlebury giver had shared with the Harvard recipient...