Word: hiked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...away, appeared at his girl friend's home for a date. He brought her a doll. In Camden, N.J., police obeyed the instructions of a twelve-year-old Kansas City runaway's parents who refused to send him the fare home: they released him, told him to hike the 1,100 miles back...
...Produce 125,000,000,000 pounds of milk - an 11% hike from 1941's anticipated record production of 112,000,000,000 pounds...
Ambition. In Spartanburg, S.C., a Venezuelan Boy Scout neared the end of an 18,000-mile hike, said he planned to take a plane home...
...arms through the air. Tradition likes to remember the time over-exuberance ended him up flat on the floor. The wandering begins to assume the likeness of a relay-race; a favorite heating pipe near the window must be tagged before the return to the desk. But the hike may be interrupted by a noisy sneezing attack requiring a five to ten minute clean up job, accompanied by an incoherent lecture muffled by his towel-sized handkerchief. Invariably there is a periodical clothes-adjusting campaign, ranging from shoe lacing to shirt buttoning. The closing five minutes bring a cessation...
...hands of Representative Robert L. Doughton of North Carolina, House Ways and Means Committee chief. Mr. Doughton, hoary expert at turnip-bleeding, said curtly that he thought the turnips could take it. To Mr. Doughton this week, from Henry Morgenthau, came the Treasury's recommendations. They included a hike in the basic income-tax rate of 2.2 to 6.6 per cent, lower exemptions, surtaxes on all incomes over...