Word: wagoner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...been sleeping." Said Robert W. Selig, chairman of the board of trustees and an executive of Fox Intermountain Theaters: "We have started with a new regime. We have a winning policy . . . We will . . . attract students with athletic abilities to our campus. We know you can't pull a wagon without horses...
Died. Joseph Raleigh Bryson, 60, teetotaling Democratic Representative from South Carolina since 1939, leader of the dry forces in Congress who tried to put the nation on the wagon during World War II; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Bethesda...
...Abominable!" snorted one woman. A Frenchman, who had once lived in New Orleans, agreed. But a milkman, stopping his horse-drawn wagon at the curb, said with a shrug, ''Ben oui. We got along without them before, we can get along without them...
They landed Army contracts, and soon Studebaker wagons were rolling into battle at Gettysburg and other Civil War actions. Custer made his last stand on the Little Big Horn separated from his supply tram of Studebakers. In the Boer War, Correspondent Winston Churchill was captured with a Studebaker wagon. Orders poured in from all over the world, and by 1887 the company was touting itself as "The Biggest Vehicle House in the World," with annual sales of $2,000,000. Its most popular buggy was the high, wide & handsome "Izzer"-so called to distinguish it from a has-been...
...More Than You Promise." When they set up their village smithy and wagon-building shop in South Bend 101 years ago, brothers Clement and Henry Studebaker had just $68 to their name. But soon they and three other brothers were cashing in on the nation's great push westward making covered wagons for the pioneers and carts and carriages for the local trade. "Always give the customer more than you promise," was their motto, "but not too much, or you'll go broke." One of the company's first formal contracts was brief and to the point...