Word: paste
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...right; the heat should seal it tight for the rest of the race. Johnnie Parsons felt that he could not afford to nurse his car along for all of those 50 miles. On the ninth lap, he rammed the foot throttle down and skittered into the lead, past Veteran Mauri Rose, three-time winner of the race, who pounded along doggedly in Johnnie's exhaust trail-a nauseous compound of burned benzol, alcohol and 100-octane aircraft gasoline. Said Parsons later: "I saw my chance and I wanted some of that lap money"-$100 for the leader of each...
...free-wheeling stagecoach days of the 1850s, Dallas won fame as a lively center of the buffalo-hide trade. But last week, the city played host to 5,000 department-store and specialty-shop buyers who were too busy to bother with Dallas' frontier past. They came to see the up-to the-minute fall styles of the city's bustling fashion industry, eighth largest...
Surprise. In Douglas, Wyo., 14-year-old Jimmy Willox, after having ridden horseback 20 miles to school every day for the past eight years, received an eighth-grade graduation present from his proud father: a saddle horse...
Sawyer's remarks were apparently in conflict with recent Justice Department policy and court decisions. The Justice Department's Anti-Trust Division has, during the past decade, undertaken cases against large concerns in the grocery, oil, movie, aluminium, and tobacco industries, charging that individual large firms, or several large firms were dominating these industries, either in particular localities or throughout the country...
...Supreme Court and lower courts have decided in the Justice Department's favor in most of these cases. As a result, the Justice Department has within the past year filed important new suits in the grocery and oil industries...