Word: toed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Never before had Santa Claus worked so hard to give U.S. retailers a merry Christmas. Across the land merchants brought him into their towns, "straight from the North Pole," in sleds, cars and by parachute. By last week, it looked as if Santa had been almost done to death.
¶ In Fort Lauderdale, Fla., several thousand children gathered at Stranahan Field to see Santa parachute from a plane hired by the Chamber of Commerce. As he floated down, the children screamed in terror; a gust of wind wafted Santa onto some power lines nearby (see cut). Unhurt, Santa was...
¶ In Chicago, the Santa of the merchants' State Street Council was paraded on a float into Soldier Field between the halves of a professional football game. A group of jeering teenagers began to pelt him with snowballs, hit him squarely in the face. As Santa exited, angrily shaking...
¶ In a Chicago department store, Santa found that many moppets were fascinated by the ticking of his watch, decided to do even better. He buried an alarm clock in his stuffed paunch. All went well until the alarm went off, sent terrified children scampering across the floor.
Near the little (pop. 1,500) mountain town of Rifle, Colo, last week, a five-year-old federal experiment reached an exciting climax. The Bureau of Mines announced that in its test plant it had produced oil from oil shale at a cost of $2 to $2.50 a barrel, comparable...