Word: woman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Self-Starter. In 1910 a woman driving across Detroit's Belle Isle bridge had engine trouble. Byron Carter, maker of an auto called the Cartercar, happened by, stopped to help, and was cranking furiously away when the motor kicked. The backlashing crank broke his jaw; he later died of complications from the injury. Kettering, an engineering graduate from Ohio State University ('04), by then set up in his own Dayton Engineering Laboratories Co. (DELCO), heard of the accident, decided that he could do something to prevent others like...
William Egan, 44, Governor. Alaska-born and a Valdez grocer, Bill Egan served in both houses of the territorial legislature, once offered to solve Alaska's woman shortage by proposing a $50-a-year tax on unmarried females. He is an airplane pilot, has worked as a cannery laborer and a truck driver, made his highest marks as president, chief parliamentarian and major cohesive agent of the 75-day Territorial Constitutional Convention in 1955-56, won the powerful governorship, with its broad powers of appointment, from Territorial Senator John Butrovich by nearly 10,000 votes...
...twin sister, sinuous Princess Ashraf, are acknowledged to have great commercial acumen. When, last month, Princess Ashraf was caught by French customs officials as she left France with 800,000 francs in her handbag after declaring only 10,000, many wondered how this could happen to so wealthy a woman. Cracked an old Teheran hand: "Probably habit...
...customary in this situation, Father is just a headstrong bull in the china shop of human relations, and dear knows what a mess he would be in if he didn't have a capable woman and several ever-so-knowing children to pick up the pieces. At first, of course, there isn't any woman, but the children soon ignore their father into hiring a maid (Sophia Loren) who is just what the scriptwriter ordered. She wiggles around, sings peculiar popular songs ("Presto, presto, do your very best, oh"), boils an egg-obviously, to the children, a normal...
...when Father tries to teach him how to fish, "the Huckleberry Finn approach?" And when he mildly reproves the younger son for some particularly brattish behavior, Sophia indignantly tells him: "Try to be a parent, not a policeman." In the end, when Father is reduced to gibbering ineffectiveness, the woman calmly and efficiently takes over and puts the poor man out of his misery by marrying him. At this point the children determine to assert their authority over both parents by refusing to attend the wedding. "Please," Father piteously pleads, while the children stare stonily at their comic books, "please...