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...Town built her a $100,000 house with $50 doorknobs. She added an "e" to her name. Next year Old Man Towne raised dollar cotton. Mrs. Towne, pallid Loraine and nympholeptic little Elaine went to Europe. Van, demoniacally drunk, scorched around the State in an Apperson Jackrabbit with a siren on it, leaving terror, curses and shaken fists in his wake. Old Man Towne borrowed $500,000 against the open draft notes signed in his name in Van's handwriting, and against the importunate cables from abroad. One day he came back from Memphis with a suitcase and called...
Rear Admiral Emory Land further volunteered that 26 idle Axis tankers in Latin American ports were available and could also beat the shortage. All this cheery talk just befuddled the public, long warned of gasless Sundays, and threatened with arrest for smoky exhausts or jackrabbit starts. But it did not befuddle Petroleum Coordinator Harold Ickes or his deputy, Ralph K. Davies, vice president of Standard Oil of California. It just infuriated them, the more so because Pelley is a super-optimist from way back. From the Maritime Commission's own report, Davies promised to show that only...
Duck-billed Harold Ickes, Secretary of the Interior, has emitted some strange noises, but his latest squawk made U.S. motorists really jump. Secretary Ickes, now U.S. Oil Tsar, threatened the arrest of "jackrabbit" starters who needlessly burn up gas for the sake of fast getaways, car owners who fail to keep their old "oil-burner" crates tuned up to efficient combustion...
...Nickersons and their fellow Buckramites motored up to Dutchess County for the first big chase of the season: a joint meet of the Buckram Beagles and the Redington Foot Beagles owned by John K. Cowperthwaite of Far Hills, N. J. Prey of the week-end was not the mere jackrabbit or the lowly cottontail, but the rare European hare (giant of the rabbit family),† which has been known to run twelve miles in one direction before turning to circle home. In the three years that the two packs have hunted this region, bound they like bandersnatches...
...front page. Advertisers think the Inquirer's, circulation has been inflated by $12 clocks given with ($4) subscriptions, believe it will eventually drop back to about 300,000 daily and 500,000 Sunday. (Present Sunday circulation is 1,000,000, but nearly half of that is "jackrabbit," a predated edition circulated from Maine to California-Peoria, Ill. accounts for 5,000 copies-and distributed by newsdealers who make huge profits selling Annenberg racing sheets...