Word: jeeped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Army announced that Dreamboat Groaner Elvis Presley, now driving a Jeep for a platoon in an armored outfit in West Germany, was recently promoted from private first class to specialist fourth class. His $26.93 pay hike upped Millionaire Presley's total service salary (including overseas pay) to a cool $135.30 a month. But no sooner did Elvis put on his fancy new golden-eagle arm patch than an untoward infirmity, long predicted by his detractors, laid him low: his tonsils gave out. At week's end Soldier Presley was recovering from his throat infection, and doctors planned...
...Magazine (a word customarily capitalized by the society) sends 849 copies to Uganda and Kenya, 57 to Broken Bow, Neb., 73 to North Borneo, and one to Hunza, a Central Asian state so remote that the Magazine each month must be carried 12,000 miles by boat, train, plane, Jeep and native runner to accommodate its lone subscriber, His Highness the Mir. With remarkable loyalty, 87% of National Geographic subscribers voluntarily renew...
...shiny new jeep with IKE AND MAMIE stenciled on the hood picked up Secretary of State Christian A. Herter as he climbed down from the Marine Corps helicopter that had whirred him from Washington to Gettysburg. The President met Herter at his farmhouse door, took him inside for a 75-minute discussion on the Western Big Four Foreign Ministers' meeting just concluded at Paris. Herter's verdict on the meeting: "Very successful." Next day, he went to Walter Reed Hospital, briefed ailing Predecessor John Foster Dulles...
...Presley is still taking life in stride as a Jeep driver in the 3rd Armored (Spearhead) Division in Germany...
Small Station Wagon. Kaiser Industries' Willys Motors, Inc. rolled out a Jeep station wagon that is the industry's lowest-priced ($1,995 factory list price, v. Rambler's $2,060). Dubbed "Maverick Special" after the company's TV show, it is powered by a 75-h.p. Jeep engine that gets 27 m.p.g...