Word: braked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Conclusion. In Jackson, Mich., police took a good look at the Leslie High School bus, pronounced it unfit for service: poor tires, defective brakes, loose front left wheel, loose steering mechanism, cracked windshield, no muffler, no emergency brake, no tail pipe, no horn, no first...
Flagman Edward J. Mulvihill tried the brake; when it failed he ordered the passengers from their berths, told them to lie flat on the floor. For 3½ miles and about five minutes, they lived a common bad dream. The car teetered at 50 m.p.h. around Bennington Curve (where the Pennsylvania's Red Arrow had killed 24 in a wreck ten nights before), highballed a mile and a half more and took off into a mountainside. When it was over, brave Porter Lee Keys Jr., who had gone back to fight the handbrake on the rear platform, was dead...
...snort like a horse." (Mosquitoes? "Well, stranger . . . it is a fact that they are rather enormous. [But] if they are large, Arkansaw is large, her varments are large, her rivers are large. A small mosquito would be of no more use in Arkansaw than preaching in a cane-brake...
...more inflation to come and 2)some of the inflationary cash went into the market because there were no goods for it to buy. The FRB steadily cut down trading on margin until a year ago, when Chairman Eccles decided that inflation had reached "dangerous proportions." To brake the market, he put trading on a cash basis. Now, Marriner Eccles was finally recognizing what the collapse of the big bull market had foretold. Prices were too high and were bound to come down in short order. Last week, they were coming down fast (see Prices...
...want of soda ash, glass makers have been forced to cut down drastically; for want of glass bottles, dairies in New York and elsewhere have been forced to cut down on deliveries of milk, which is somewhat short for want of cows. For want of castor oil, used as brake and shock absorber fluid, automakers could not roll out all the cars they had hoped to deliver. For want of nails to make curing racks. Georgia farmers this year were threatened with the loss of half of their $57,000,000 peanut crop...