Word: slickers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...substantial fraction of the present rise in farm values is due to city-slicker dollars in search of a hedge against inflation. "Chicago money" has poured into Illinois farm land in recent months; an Iowa farm broker last week reported that one eastern moneybags had just banked $400,000 in Des Moines and was looking for land to spend...
Flemington's tax rate, now 28? and by far the lowest in New Jersey, is still dropping. By the end of next year, Flemington and Hunterdon County will have paid off $11,000 in bonded debt with city slicker money, will be debt free. What will happen then, Flemingtonians do not know. But they can dream-of a super-velvety municipal golf course, a Hollywoodian town swimming pool, even a Utopian tax holiday...
...headquarters building one day in a sudden downpour a man who looked like General Patton stood on the roof. He had a tin hat on, his slicker was buttoned close up around his neck. He was looking up at a grey heaven and he seemed to be wondering...
...backhanded blast at the slicker-dicker sort of U.S. truck builder, ODT's Bill Cumming, chief of its Vehicle Maintenance Section, snorted that after World War II smart fleet operators will demand a general sacrifice of "looks" and "streamlining" to efficiency, will insist on trucks with cabs "which a full-sized driver can enter easily-in which he can sit up straight, look out the windshield, get his knees under the steering wheel and operate the controls...
...four battleships of the South Dakota class (35,000 tons) will be in service before the end of this year, shorter, beamier, slicker, and better protected than the two new North Carolinas...