Word: wagoners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...through the shirt-losing stage. Then A. P. Sloan Jr. got the mushrooming auto industry interested in his bearing for its axles - automakers had been using an ordinary wagon axle, heavily greased. Soon, Hyatt Bearing was making money hand over fist...
...instructions about surrender-would not the Americans fly back to China if he gave them gasoline? In Peiping the commander said he could not allow the teams to see any prisoners until he had instructions from Nanking; meanwhile, he put them up as guests in Peiping's famed Wagon-lits Hotel. Not a single shot was reported fired at the paratroopers who took the long chance on their errands of mercy...
...seven tradi tional offices of worship (Lauds, Prime, Terce, Sext, None, Vespers and Com pline), in which psalms are sung in ancient plain song. During the rest of the day the monks clean house, mow lawns, cultivate their gardens, collect their laundry and mail (in a 1941 station wagon), study in a well-stocked library, swim in t_e river...
Many a farmer, impressed by the jeep's war record, has wanted to own one-without thinking twice. Well aware of this eager market, publicity-wise Willys-Overland Motors, Inc., the principal jeep-maker, carefully built its trim, grim little wagon into what it thought would be a low-cost, all-purpose farm vehicle of the future. But Willys did not talk about price; the OPA had to be consulted...
When Benjamin Fine, New York Times education editor, blasted the story over two columns on page one of the Times and the Boston Herald, other pagers threw the release date out the window and climbed one the wagon. Preliminary editorial opinion from the press seems entirely favorable to the report, though hot debate is expected among local and national educators...