Word: sedans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Always a frugal man, Stevenson has bought one new suit since he became governor. A favorite item in his wardrobe is an old pair of golf shoes with the spikes removed. Besides the plane, he uses a state-owned black 1940 Cadillac sedan which has traveled over 300,000 miles. These sparing habits have gained him a reputation as a close man with a buck, whether it is his or the state's. He is not a poor man. He is said to be worth about half a million dollars, with an income, including his $12,000-a-year...
Holy Man Brahmachari toured Nehru's constituency in a 1931 Dodge sedan, accompanied by a troupe of Hindu singers. To the chanting of Hindu psalms, he danced on the platform, rhythmically tapping a pair of small brass cymbals. A disciple read from a pamphlet he had written. Brahmachari on U.S. divorce: "I have heard that in America . . . women marry and divorce as many as three husbands a day, and there are some women who have had several hundred spouses each." On U.S. marriage: "An Indian student, visiting an American cemetery, found a young woman seated by the side...
...lowering the "normal" earnings (exempt from the tax) to 83% of the 1946-49 base period instead of the current 85%. ¶ Whiskey taxes are raised 24? to 30? per fifth, beer $1 per barrel, cigarettes 1? per package, gasoline ½? per gallon, autos $50 for a light sedan. A new 10% excise tax is placed on power lawnmowers, home movie projectors, electric dishwashers...
...spotted a glare in the hills and drove up a twisting road to the Adamic place. It was burning. By the time volunteer firemen arrived from Riegelsville, two miles away, the author's garage and studio had burned to its foundations. The charred wreck of a new Nash sedan sat amid the embers. The back of the old farmhouse, 100 feet away, was flaming too. The firemen drove on, ran hose to a nearby pond and put the fire...
...fire. The unswept, cobwebbed rooms stank from a litter of oily rags; the inner walls of Adamic's barn, which did not burn, had also been doused with oil, apparently taken from the farmhouse fuel tank. A moment later, they found the owner of the sedan. Adamic was lying on his back on a couch in an upstairs bedroom. He was wearing dungarees and a windbreaker, with a pillow at his back, a .22 Mossberg rifle across his lap-and a bullet wound just above his right ear. He was dead...