Word: winterful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...around the room, Harry Truman replied with a grin: "Where would I ever find another house like this?" This tidbit was reported by a gossip columnist last week. But by last week it was apparent that it would take more than wisecracks to keep Candidate Truman from househunting next winter...
When he was helping Uncle Earl get elected governor of Louisiana last winter, 29-year-old Russell Long was not above pausing to speak enthusiastically about himself. He reminded Louisiana voters that he was Huey Long's oldest son, and strongly intimated that he was the true heir to the departed Kingfish's domain. This summer, when he set out to run for the U.S. Senate, he made the inference even plainer by continually speaking of "Me and Earl...
More Money. Despite its achievements and its obvious value in good will for the U.S., SESP has had its bumps from the economy-minded U.S. Congress. IIAA's appropriation has been halved, and the agency's power to contract with foreign governments limited to one year. Next winter, the new U.S. Congress may wipe out IIAA altogether...
Seven-year-old Stymie, alltime top money winner ($911,335), fractured a bone in his right forefoot in July and has been "resting, just resting" since Trainer Hirsch Jacobs sent him to a Virginia farm. Armed, second money winner ($773,700), sprained his left foreleg last winter, lost some easy races, and was retired to Calumet Farm because Trainer Jones didn't want to see the seven-year-old "degraded." Assault was retired to stud (but proved impotent) after losing the Widener Handicap last February (TIME, March 1). Citation's victory last week put him ahead of Assault...
Automobile tire sales were ballooning. A severe winter slump had persuaded tiremakers that they were up against a postwar decline,* and they had gone after customers with talk of new styles and promises of greater comfort. Firestone brought out a low-pressure "super balloon tire", U.S. Rubber an "Innacush" (industrial solid tire), and Goodrich a tubeless tire. But buyers hardly noticed the new offerings; they just needed tires all of a sudden, and standard models were plenty good enough...