Word: tuckered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Though he has publicly shown just one handmade model, Preston Tucker has somehow managed to raise over $20,000,000 to finance production of his rear-engined Tucker '48 (TIME, July 7 et seq.). Last week, Promoter Tucker announced an ingenious scheme (which the SEC is carefully watching) to raise millions more. He wanted to sell radios, seat covers and other extra accessories to prospective car buyers for $270 a set. They could take delivery in six weeks or wait until their cars are delivered. In return for paying for the extras now, the purchasers would get a priority...
Charles W. Chastain, 3rd, Plattsburg. Charles F. McCoy, Kansas City. Paul Luther Maier, Clayton. Glen McF. Tucker, St. Louis...
Solution. In Oklahoma City, authorities puzzled over the problem of Mrs. Bill Tucker, who shot her husband in the abdomen when she caught him flirting with the telephone girl in a bootleg liquor store, finally solved it by releasing the three principals, jailing the bootlegger...
National Pastime. In Benicia, Calif., Mrs. Exorah Tucker, 67, was treated for injuries she suffered while playing baseball. In Zanesville, Ohio, Charles King, 80, broke his hip at batting practice...
Puccini: La Bohème (Bidu Sayao, Richard Tucker, and others with the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus, Giuseppe Antonicelli conducting; Columbia, 26 sides). No mistaking this for the Met; some nice singing, and a great deal that is ordinary, uneven and sometimes shrill. Recording: good...