Word: graveled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Andy Devine, fat, gravel-throated comedian, was shaved by singing starlet Susanna Foster, Republican...
...Oregon he had his special train pulled over the Southern Pacific's backwoods Siskiyou line, on which no national candidate had traveled for 20 years. This enabled him to pan for votes in untouched gravel at Grants Pass, Medford and Roseburg. In Oregon, too, he made the voters slap their legs with a charge against the Democratic Administration-that the New Deal had spent $2.97 per rat (you can buy a chicken for $2.97) in a Louisiana rat extermination campaign. In San Francisco, Bricker and party overcrowded an elevator, were stalled in it for ten minutes, finally crawled...
Familiar Tune. Up rose white-haired Dan Tobin, for 37 years the absolute boss of the Teamsters. He stuck out the majestic Tobin stomach, and ordered the waiters to clear out. Then he sat down again, and the show was on the air. When, at last, the Tobin gravel voice had stopped quivering the rosy Tobin jowls, and the six-minute ovation was over, the President spoke...
...acre farm at Pawling, New York's dapper Governor Tom Dewey last week took some time off. As a country squire he supervised the repair of a barn, directed construction of a new gravel road to his 200-year-old farmhouse, played an occasional game of One-o'-Cat with sons Tommy, 11, & Johnny, 8, went daily to the Pawling Country Club for 18 holes of golf. There was little State business; what there was, he disposed of quickly when State Troopers motored down from Albany with documents. He and his handsome wife Frances celebrated their 16th wedding...
...tower cost $600,000, but, said Crowe, "it was a half-million dollars cheaper than any scheme anybody else thought of." Shasta also used the world's longest conveyor belt (ten and a half miles) to carry gravel and sand to the damsite. The two bold innovations have drawn international engineering attention...