Word: wagoneer
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...biggest unit of the world's biggest home movers is, quite naturally, in movable Los Angeles. Son Martin established it in 1895, with a one-horse wagon that carried the furniture of land speculators over a dust-choked, rutty road from Los Angeles to San Diego. Time : five days...
...Sergeant Charles White leaned back in his chair, said: "My God, things are dead. . . . Nothing like last time, when they tried to burn the city hall." Three minutes later the first alarm sounded. A few blocks away, patrolmen found a streetcar burning. Then a mob tipped over the patrol wagon. Then a sailor ignited the gas that spilled...
Extraordinarily responsive to alcohol, Gould once gave gin its free rein, but now he's on the wagon. He claims he'll stay away from hard liquor until his ninetieth birthday; "then I'm going to get drunk and stay that way, even if it kills me." But the way things look now, nicotine may get him before alcohol...
...reason. But he was not long marooned. An Army B-25 took him aboard, carried him to New York City's LaGuardia Field. There a Marine Corps pilot picked him up, delivered him safe & sound to Washington. The pilot called the White House and someone sent a station wagon to gather up his passenger...
...London: adroit René Massigli, a cold, analytical career diplomat who was slow to get off the Vichy wagon but has nevertheless won De Gaulle's confidence. ¶ In Washington: lean, able Henri Bonnet, who put in eleven years with the League of Nations and joined forces with De Gaulle in 1940. He and Mme. Bonnet came to the U.S. that year, barely managed to get along-he by writing and teaching, she by running a hat shop in Manhattan. His books (Outline of the Future, The United Nations on the Way) reflected his strong belief in a world...