Word: pontiac
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ford Motor Co. led General Motors and Chrysler Corp. (producers of Pontiac, Dodge, Oldsmobile, De Soto, Chevrolet and Plymouth-other sixes). In 1940 Ford Motor Co. ranked after them...
...Pontiac station wagon shuttles Shirley from school to her house in fashionable Brentwood, where she scampers about with her onetime stand-in (Mary Lou Isleib), Harold Lloyd's two daughters, the Brentwood Campfire Girls, Westlake schoolmates. Fortnight ago home was made more interesting by the completion of an elaborate playhouse with an auditorium seating 85, a room for her collection of rare dolls, a basement with bowling alley and ping-pong table, a room for framing and filing prize fan mail...
...could build a mental road with." Evolution was his religion. There was Francis Parkman, who had been over the Oregon Trail. Life in the West had destroyed his digestion and given him chronic insomnia. Arthritis crippled him. A nervous disorder "engulfed his mind." He had published The Conspiracy of Pontiac. It was 14 years before he could publish the next volume of his "history of the American forest...
Some men have political sense, some haven't. Young F. Lynden Smith, Pontiac, Ill., lumberman, had it. He had it to such a powerful degree that he attracted the nose of Governor Henry Horner in 1936. The Governor was out for reelection, and the powerful Kelly-Nash machine was out to stop him. It was backslapping, 44-year-old Lyn Smith, a Kiwanian, Mason, Shriner. Elk, World War veteran, whom Henry Horner chose to manage his campaign downstate. Mr. Smith's reward for helping Horner win was the directorship of the State Department of Public Works...