Word: occasional
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This week the nation, and the world, marked the second anniversary of V-J day, an occasion when President Harry Truman, jubilant with the fresh news of victory, told a cheering crowd on the White House lawn: "This is the day when fascism and police government ceases in the world...
¶ In Jackson, Tenn., old (73) Locomotive-Fireman Sim T. Webb recalled what Casey Jones really said before he took his "trip into the promised land" in the early morning of April 30, 1900. Casey, highballing south from Durant, Miss, at the throttle of the Illinois Central Railroad's...
On the final day President Sean O'Kelly and his wife Phyllis drove into the grounds in an open landau, surrounded by an elegant escort of blue-&-gold uniformed hussars. Two of the horses pulling the landau, unnerved by the excitement of the occasion, reared, almost overturned the landau...
However, Iron Age estimated that last week's price advances would add $350 million to the nation's steel bill, boost third-quarter steel earnings close to the first quarter's alltime high. So last week's steel rise would give the rest of the nation...
Epidemic. The first to mark the occasion was General Motors Corp. Olds had minimized the steel boost by declaring that it would add no more than $9 or $10 to the cost of the average automobile. But G.M. boosted car prices last week from $60 to $168, despite a record...