Word: raced
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first crop in is oats. Oats cannot tolerate hot weather. As fast as the ground dries in March, it must be ploughed-usually in a race between rains. Up at 4 or half-past, Dale Kuester turns on the lights of his Massey-Harris "101" Senior tractor, rockets out to the gang plough and buzzes off for a working day that often ends, as it began, in darkness. Last March Dale Kuester ploughed 20 acres of oat land in 18 hours-something like making a 500-mile automobile trip in ten hours. By the second week in April the Kuesters...
...today" signs, the creeping national scandal of the black market were signs of the times. They were also OPA's Achilles' heel. What was the use of price control when there were no goods under the price tags? The U.S. consumer craved a thousand things, but the race for scarce items went to the swift and knowing-not always the same as the honest or the deserving-citizen...
...morning of the race, Stylianos got a letter from Athens signed by his three-year-old daughter Helen, ordering him to win. Over the hills & dales of Ash land, Framingham, Natick and Wellesley he ran as he had never run before. When...
...amendments to the Price Control Act would merely strangle the OPA slowly rather than end it with one clean knife thrust. Conspicuous spending in Miami Beach bistros and metropolitan race tracks make good reading but represent hardly a trickle of the national spending power waiting to burst out of the temporary confines of banks and bonds. When the new Price Control Act requires that ceilings on any item whose production for "a 12 month period is equal to its production for the peak year, July 1940 to June 1941" be lifted, economic dynamite is being held too near the flame...
...only talkative contestant in the race to produce a cheaper car was James D. Mooney, bouncing, bustling president of Willys-Overland Motors, Inc. His plans: a six-cylinder model weighing only 2,500 Ibs. (smallest Ford weighs 3,011 Ibs.) with standard wheel base, wide seats, and "gasoline economy which will amaze the driving public." The 1947 Willys will be in production early next year, will sell for less than any of the present models of Plymouth, Ford, or Chevrolet...