Word: licensee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Close Calls. In Goshen. Ind.. Walter Call was arrested for driving without a license, so Mrs. Call took the wheel, promptly plowed into the rear of the police car at a traffic light, was arrested for driving with defective brakes.
"The Indiana state automobile license division reported that never before have so many people written 'no occupation' when filling out their license forms."
The onetime fighter and wartime Nazi propaganda stooge has an interest in a book-publishing firm; the commission refused the firm a publishing license.
Shortages. In Omaha, Michael Urkovich, 18, wound up in police court when auto inspectors found he lacked: a windshield, a muffler, proper lights, workable steering apparatus, sufficient brakes, and a driver's license; besides, the right front door fell off when it was opened.
Obsequial Engineer. Businessmen have hastened to take advantage of the general, linguistic license. Deeply characteristic of American life, says Mencken, is the desire of the little man to make himself sound bigger, of the common man to make himself uncommon. (Even in the 18th Century, small New England shopkeepers had...