Word: ticket
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Backtracking fast, Mayor Healey announced that the suspension hearings were canceled, that the rookies would be restored to duty. But it was too late. An independent, veteran-backed ticket was gunning for the whole city administration in the fall elections. Last week, atop the bandwagon and not at all embarrassed, the Fearless Four had everything but their raise...
...week's end McMinn County Politicos Paul Cantrell and Pat Mansfield, whose Democratic machine had bullied the fertile East Tennessee valley for ten years, were still absent and in hiding. The entire G.I. Nonpartisan ticket (including two Republicans) had been declared elected. The new Sheriff will be Knox Henry, 34, filling-station owner and an overseas Air Corps sergeant...
...courthouse a public mass meeting chose a minister and two businessmen to run governmentless McMinn County until the G.I.s could take over. Shootings and car-wreckings by armed bands of vigilantes continued. Big-jawed, towering Jim Buttram, twice-wounded corporal with the Ninth Division and manager of the G.I. Ticket, promised "to help maintain order...
...world's unchartered airways-the trans-Pacific routes to the Orient-was finally portioned out last week by the Civil Aeronautics Board. Promptly approved by President Truman, the board's decision will permit air travelers for the first time to go around the world on one ticket...
...around the world* (probable price, around $2,000; time, four days or less). But even then it will have nothing exclusive. Reason: CAB also extended the North Atlantic route of Trans World Airline from Bombay to Shanghai. There T.W.A. will team up with Northwest to offer a joint one-ticket globe-girdling trip that is 2,000 miles shorter and more complete than Pan Am's. (Hustling to get the jump on their new rival, Northwest and T.W.A. announced that they plan to inaugurate the service within three months...