Word: ups
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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"After studying the world's cab-riding habits at some length," announced Tomo-michi Tanaka, a bristling, bossy little ex-lieutenant general of the Japanese army air force, "I find that Americans and Europeans like to ride up front. This is a sign of higher culture. They don'...
After Japan's surrender, General Tanaka decided to do something about this cultural problem. Japan's streets were crawling with a new three-wheel pedicab which had largely displaced the old, coolie-pulled jinrikisha.* These provided the driver with pedals to push with, but they still left him...
Cleveland Druggist Sanford Newman and his wife had planned the cruise as their first real vacation in 15 years. They bought new clothes, left their two children at home and boarded the Canada Steamship Lines' Noronic (6,905 tons), queen of the company's Great Lakes fleet, for...
Sonja Henie, 36, highly professional ice-skating star, and Winthrop Gardiner, 36, socialite sportsman, were married in Manhattan, at a small ceremony (there was a little trouble arranging for the church, since it was her second marriage and his fourth). Sonja was a few minutes late because of some last...
General of the Air Force "Hap" Arnold, grounded at Sonoma, Calif, since his retirement in 1946, made one more break with his past. To the local city fathers he presented his collection of model airplanes (more than 65 exact scale models, covering every phase of aviation history, with wingspreads ranging...