Word: topeka
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...building by calling out boldly: "Hey let me out of here!" The watchman obliged. In Kansas City, a young man who stole a truck explained to police that he had to, because the tires he had stolen a few minutes before were too heavy to carry. In Topeka, somebody stole all the buttons off Frank Coffman's closetful of clothes. In Seattle, William B. Morris admitted he had been stealing jewelry and decorating trees with...
Slip of a Miss. In Topeka, a gas-station manager who had to hire a girl attendant because of the manpower shortage had to fire her because of her blistering vocabulary...
...Railroads are the big exception to the profits drop. Long the most overtaxed U.S. business, railroaders are now protected from the excess-profits levies by the very rail & ballast that has kept their profits down for years. Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe-longest U.S. railroad-earned $16,775,000 in the five months ended last May, more than three times a year ago; Atlantic Coast Line netted $8,938,000 in the same five months, almost double 1941; Union Pacific boosted profits from...
...University of Wisconsin, Curry had done a 37 by 14 ft. painting called The Emancipation Proclamation. For Topeka's Capitol he had attempted to picture the entire history of Kansas, beginning with Coronado's discovery. Painter Curry, who refers to himself without false modesty as "a picture painter, and a damned good one," was particularly proud of his work in Topeka. Said he: "It is the greatest painting I have yet done...
Individual issues did even better. In five trading days last week Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe rose 4⅞; Sears, Roebuck 3⅛ American Telephone 3; Atlantic Coast Line 2; and General Motors...