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Word: alofsin (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...note to the pigeon and release it. Otherwise he would be killed. Shrewd Herr Pattberg hired a plane and pilot which followed the pigeon and photographed the house on which it alighted. Duisburg police soon arrested the blackmailer. Less smart were Manhattan police last April when a Dr. Louis Alofsin received a pair of pigeons and a demand for $10,000. Police, futile with field glasses on housetops, watched the birds fly across the Hudson to New Jersey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Flights & Flyers: Sep. 23, 1929 | 9/23/1929 | See Source »

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