Word: neck
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...crash landing, finally did it. Observers at autumn style shows came away feeling top-heavy. Some hats looked like dishpans swathed in varicolored mosquito netting, others like sour-milk hotcakes. Most of them were as big as barrelheads. It seemed almost certain that by spring U.S. women would have neck muscles like Jim Londos...
...foot which Young Henry put in the soil last week also came down hard on the neck of an angular Irish inventor named Harry Ferguson. In 1939, Ferguson, who had perfected a hydraulic lift device to keep tractors from turning over when the plow hit obstructions, became old Henry Ford's "only partner." Ford had stopped making his Fordson tractor in the '20s when it lost money. But for Ferguson, Ford made 306,181 tractors, this time with the Ferguson lift. They were sold exclusively by Ferguson, Inc., which relied heavily on Ford dealers...
...Pope, luncheon with the Foreign Minister, a Grand Hotel reception glittering with papal titles, and a dazzling performance of A'ïda under the stars in the ancient Baths of Caracalla. Eva, in black flowered silk with a white fox cape, her hair, ear lobes and shapely neck glittering with diamonds, arrived on the arm of Premier de Gasperi just in time to delay the second act a full half-hour. Some of the paying guests were furious, but the Latin American diplomats, who had the best seats, cheered wildly...
Shot-in-the-Root. Des Moines' Ross Daniels Root Feeder Co. has needled its business with a hypodermic needle for plants. Attached to a garden hose, the needle is inserted into the ground near the plant roots. The water dissolves powdered fertilizers in the neck of the needle and feeds them directly to the roots. The price...
...America extended its lead as the largest U.S. bank. Its midyear statement reported total resources of $5,469,783,000, topping New York's National City Bank, the nation's second largest, by more than $400,000,000. New York's Chase National Bank, once neck-&-neck with the leader, ran third with...