Word: bail
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When the cars got to Baton Rouge, the whole town turned out to do a little good-natured jeering. Dr. Smith and his wife were whisked to jail (she for abetting his flight), fingerprinted. A delegation of L. S. U. professors was on hand with money to bail out Mrs. Smith, but Dr. Smith refused to be sprung. If he got out of jail in Baton Rouge he would be clapped into jail in New Orleans, where he was wanted for forgery, and Baton Rouge offered him several inducements to stay. He was given a cell with a private bathtub...
...Parachute Jump is an offshoot of a practical idea, employed since 1932 by the Soviet Union to help train military and civilian fliers. Today, at Hightstown, N. J.'s military training towers, the Jump corresponds to the first step in teaching aviators to bail out. At Hightstown it is called "captive drop with seat"; next comes "captive drop with harness"; there after, free drops without safety cables...
...from Michigan City to Chicago (63 miles) in 10 hrs. 30 min. Last week he was testing a two-way radio with two stations on shore. His motor brushes burned out, his craft stalled. "Send out a boat!" radioed Submariner Connett. "Send out a boat before I have to bail...
...Claire, Wis., Oil-burner Salesman W. B. West, arrested for speeding, could not pay the $20 bail bond. He got the money by persuading the desk sergeant to make a $20 down payment on an oil-burner...
...even though his own pack was well content with him. Last week the hounds, set at his heels by New York City's libertarian, Nazi-baiting Mayor LaGuardia, ran down Nazi Kuhn. Charged with plucking $14,548 of Bund funds, he was indicted, arrested, freed on mercifully low bail...