Word: pontiac
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This is home, and Sam likes it. As he left the ranch ten days ago to return to Washington he drove to nearby Denison to board the Katy's Bhiebonnet. Driving in his tan Pontiac through the windswept streets of Denison, Sam heard the loafers under the broad store awnings call: "Good luck, Mister...
...Michigan, to accommodate war workers, a large percentage of the hatchery output has been dumped into the many small lakes lying within a radius of 45 miles of Detroit, Flint and Pontiac...
Engineering. In Pontiac, Mich., after years of promoting, the fire department finally got an appropriation for a $17,000 fire engine, then found it was four feet too long for the station...
Somewhere in England 22-year-old Corporal Ora A. Foster of suburban Pontiac, Mich, thumbed a ride in an outsize limousine, chatted in the back seat for some 14 miles with two pleasant ladies while a British colonel sat up front with the chauffeur. "I more or less did the talking," Foster reported later. Before he got out one of the ladies remarked, "I guess you don't know who I am, do you?" "You've got me beat," said Foster, and she told him: Queen Mary. Corporal Foster summed up classically: "You could have knocked me down...
Most famed of all amateur astronomers is Robert Raynolds McMath, 51, who spends as little time as possible as chairman of Detroit's Motors Metal Manufacturing Co., as much as possible in the elaborate McMath-Hulbert Observatory near Pontiac. Fifteen years ago, Engineer McMath built a small 4-inch telescope for his father, became so fascinated at his first view of Jupiter's satellites and the moon's mountains that he has been designing astronomical instruments ever since. He has made the world's best motion pictures of solar phenomena, and his films are now used...