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Word: neb (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cellar . . . but so long as the plaster holds he will come to no harm." French surgeons in the War of 1870 pioneered the plaster closed method and in World War I it was used to some extent by U. S. Army Surgeon Hiram Winnett Orr, now of Lincoln, Neb., who contributed a preface to Dr. Trueta's book, Treatment of War Wounds And Fractures (Hoeber...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Plaster and Stench | 7/8/1940 | See Source »

Last year Paramount Pictures threw a big costume party in Omaha, Neb. to give its Union Pacific a rousing sendoff. Exuberant citizens had so much fun they decided to have another Golden Spike...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: High Jinks in Omaha | 5/27/1940 | See Source »

Author, president and top dog of Railway Extension is a husky, happy-go-lucky, talkative automobile dealer named Ed O'Shea. Weary of turning away potential customers who came to his Lincoln, Neb. agency from the next-door bus depot and the nearby railroad station to ask whether they could rent a car for a few hours, Dealer O'Shea worked out Railway Extension, took it to the railroads. At present his agency operates its own cars (500) in some 35 cities, has contracts with local drive-yourself agencies in the others...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Train-Auto Service | 5/13/1940 | See Source »

Grey-haired Martin D. Wilson, a conductor on the Burlington, off duty, was motoring home alone with two geese, two turkeys, two hams last December. At a Richland, Neb. grade crossing he was surprised by a Union Pacific express. Pulling diagonally across the tracks, Conductor Wilson caught his left front wheel between rails, stalled, leaped out, fled. He was safe when the train, doing 70, smacked the auto and left the rails, derailing eight cars, tearing up 300 feet of track, killing the engineer and fireman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RAILROADS: Union Pacific Bites Dog | 5/13/1940 | See Source »

...court for damages went Union Pacific. Conductor Wilson filed a countersuit, asking $300 damages to his ten-year-old sport coupe. Fortnight ago an Omaha, Neb. jury told Conductor Wilson to pay U. P. $40,025. Last week Conductor Wilson was back at his job, wondering whether to appeal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RAILROADS: Union Pacific Bites Dog | 5/13/1940 | See Source »

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