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When he came home he worked his laundry route like a prospector working a gravel bar. He made good money-more than $100 a week. He got himself elected business agent of Laundry Driver's Local 566, made speeches in Seattle's down-at-the-heels labor temple at every opportunity. He took extension courses in economics, law, business administration, and English...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: The Herdsman | 11/29/1948 | See Source »

...nettle shall flourish on the gravel court...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: 1,000 Lost Golf Balls | 11/15/1948 | See Source »

...Uppers. In Sydney, Australia, Dental Supplier Kenneth Kemp decided that gravel was too expensive, paved his driveway with several hundred thousand false teeth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Nov. 1, 1948 | 11/1/1948 | See Source »

...gravel-voiced Editor Jacquin Leonard Lait thrives on the pace that kills. Last month, when he began his eighth "annual stand-in stint" for Gossip Walter

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Hustling Hearstling | 8/30/1948 | See Source »

...that his experience with a Corgi motorbike, given him by its manufacturer, will not be too typical of forthcoming British-American trade relationships. Jackson took the 65-pound bike (a civilian model of that used by paratroops during the war) out for his first spin, skidded in some loose gravel, fractured his left foot. Rather, they like to dwell on the gift which Jackson received from another enthusiastic Britisher, the morning after his speech at the British Consumer Goods meeting - a case of Scotch whiskey (now selling for $18-$20 a bottle in London...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Jul. 26, 1948 | 7/26/1948 | See Source »

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