Word: fording
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Most of the evening, Truck Driver George Rutherford paced nervously around his room in Roseburg, Ore.'s Umpqua Hotel. Once he walked the three blocks to the Gerretsen Building Supply Co. to look over the blue 1959 Ford truck he had parked on the street after a 290-mile drive from his home plant, Pacific Powder Co. of Tenino, Wash.. Cause for his worry: his cargo consisted of two tons of dynamite and 4½ tons of Car-Prill (a highly explosive mixture-ammonium nitrate and oil) that he was to deliver to customers at dawn. About...
...house t' make it home/A heap o' sun an' shadder, an' ye sometimes have to roam") alone went through 35 printings, sold more than 1,000,000 copies. At his peak, Guest earned $128,000 a year. He had many impressive friends; Henry Ford and William Lyon Phelps were among his greatest admirers. He owned two handsome homes-a vast, colonnaded winter residence in Detroit, a summer home in fashionable Pointe aux Barques...
...other U.S. automakers were shutting down plants last week for the changeover to 1960 models, Ford and Chevrolet were still rolling out cars in their battle for first place. For the full 1959 model year, which began last October, unofficial figures show Ford on top by some 20,000 cars. From January through July, though, Chevy is ahead by an estimated 29,000 cars. In July alone, Ford rushed ahead of Chevy, took more than 25% of the auto market...
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...sisters and novices (average age: 21) whose royal blue habits and white headdresses do not conceal the facial tattoos of their tribal origin. As nurses and teachers, they help the white nuns in the region, who constantly fan out to outlying parishes, get around on horseback, motorcycles or Jeeps, ford streams on oil-drum rafts, shoot snakes and birds of prey that threaten the mission's poultry flocks. So pleased is the flying bishop with the Rosary order that he now plans to launch an equivalent order for monks...