Word: rodes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...showed up in Pasadena at the coronation ball honoring Pasadena City College coed Joan Culver, 18, new queen of the Tournament of Roses, which adds to the hoopla of the Rose Bowl football game. In the vanguard of the traditional mammoth parade through Pasadena this week, "Engine Charlie" Wilson rode in a flossy, rose-festooned convertible as the procession's grand marshal...
Within an hour, Stevenson, one of his law partners, his press secretary, a bone specialist and Mrs. John Alden Carpenter, his former wife's mother, were on the way to Goshen in a chartered plane. The next day, the weary and worn father rode in an ambulance with his son the 115 miles to a Chicago hospital, where the boy's mother met them. From all over the U.S. had come messages of sympathy. Wired Dwight Eisenhower: "Distressed to read on the ticker that your son John has been seriously injured. I send you my most prayerful hopes...
...right flank rode Edgar Faure, the slick-as-onionskin politician who precipitated the snap elections, and Antoine Pinay, the slow and steady little tanner from St.Chamond. They led a relatively smooth-working alliance of independents, farmers, other conservatives and Catholic M.R.P.s...
...left flank, a knight in half-polished breastplates and only part-plumed helmet that he had not expected to use until spring, rode Pierre Mendès-France. With him were allied the Socialists, numerically strong but not strong enough, the pundits guessed, to carry Mendès to power. The Communists, though reduced in numbers and caught in contradictions of policy, rode the guerrilla trails in confident expectation of gaining 20 or 30 seats. Also present were roughhousing bully squads organized by brash young Anti-Taxer Pierre Poujade to tear down candidates and break up opposition meetings, Fascist-style...
Ford reached this summit after a decade of steady climbing. In 1946, on sales of roughly $900 million, it lost $8,000,000. It rode into the black the next year with a net income of $63 million, almost quadrupled the figure by last year with $228 million. Passenger-car and truck sales last year were 1,991,000, or 30% of the U.S. auto industry's total v. G.M.'s 50% and Chrysler's 13%. In the first nine months of this year, net income of $312 million was well above last year...