Word: stops
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cars, coats, watches, and sundry other items lost, found or for sale form the bulk of the classified advertisements, but every now and then some captivating little item appears which makes readers stop and rub their eyes...
Routine. In Nasonville, R.I., Howard Staples, who lives near a highway curve, took it philosophically when an 8½-ton truck plowed into his house, barely bypassed his wife, crashed to a stop four feet from his sleeping son: it was the 20th vehicle to hit his house in 18 years...
...presidential plane rolled to a stop in the bright morning sunlight, the carefully rehearsed formalities began. President Truman hopped out brisk & cheerful, despite his early (2:59 a.m.) takeoff, to meet U.S. Ambassador Walter Thurston and his aides, drawn up on the cement apron. At the same moment Mexico's President Miguel Aleman started down a specially built staircase from the observation platform (which had been newly decorated with brown rugs, leather office furniture, gleaming brass spittoons). The 21-gun salute due a chief of state boomed out; the U.S. and Mexican anthems sounded...
...England's biggest concern would be the new Ambassador's attitude toward her dollar difficulties. If the British remembered F.D.R.'s remark that Douglas seemed more concerned with dollars than humanity, if they were concerned over his dislike for a controlled economy, they could stop worrying. Lew Douglas was an internationalist first, a "hardmoney" man second. Said he: "England is a good risk. But it will be a sorry, sorry day ultimately for this nation when we condition our loans solely on whether they are good risks...
...down to a crash landing on a frozen lake. For three days the eleven-man crew sat it out, tapping out signals on a gasoline-powered radio. When a C-54 skimmed in for the rescue it was so cold that the pilot, Lieutenant Bobbie Joe Cavnar, never dared stop his engines...