Word: loveland
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, after a long Willys-OPA huddle, the price came out: $1,090, f.o.b. Toledo. Some farmers, who apparently hoped the jeep would be at the Model T Ford price level, suddenly began to find objections. Said Iowa Farmer A. J. Loveland: "Personally, I think it's too high. After the war you might buy a tractor and a car for $1,090." Said Iowa State Agriculture Secretary Harry D. Linn: "Jeeps will fit in well for runabout errands. But I can't see how the practical farmer is going to go crazy over it. They shake...
Toughest Schriber job was painting the buildings at the Climax (Colo.) molybdenum mines in the winter of 1939-40. Many of Nate's painting crew could not stand the 12,000-ft. altitude and 35-below-zero temperature. Once, on treacherous Loveland Pass, Nate's car was blown off the road, and only a luckily placed tree saved him from a plunge into a chasm...