Word: pocketer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...just in time to see the thief driving off in it. Near Grafton, Australia, Farmer William Thompson found a kan garoo caught in a fence, put his vest on it, merrily watched it hop away in style, realized later that the kangaroo had ?5 in its new vest pocket...
...election as governor next year. (Current gossip had Jim Farley as his Democratic opponent.) But if Tom Dewey won in 1946, he could be a strong contender for the 1948 presidential nomination. For one thing, he would have New York's huge block of delegates in his pocket...
...Mostprominent: Almighty Atom, John J.O'Neill, Ives Washburn; Atomic Energy in the Coming Era, David Dietz, Dodd, Mead; Atom Smashers, Raymond E. Yates, Didier; The Atomic Age Opens, Pocket Books...
...pocket he had some 5,300 orders (with cash deposits), probably the fattest backlog of anyone in the light-plane industry. And there were plenty more in the offing, thanks to a smart deal to sell his planes in department stores (John Wanamaker's Manhattan and Philadelphia stores and Mandel Bros, in Chicago already have contracts to sell Piper planes). Next year, he hopes to step way out in front of the industry with his single-place, 90-m.p.h. Skycycle, which will sell for under...
...occupation had been a failure from almost everybody's point of view. The union, hopping mad because it was right back where it started from, was ready to strike. The Army, which paid out cash over & above collections, said it was $1,200,000 out of pocket...