Word: bailed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...arrested two men and a woman on charges of serving as Soviet spies: Jack Soble, 53, and Jacob Albam, 64, both natives of Lithuania, and Soble's Russian-born wife Myra, 52. Handcuffed, the prisoners were escorted to Manhattan's federal courthouse, where a U.S. commissioner set bail at $100,000 apiece...
...ROAD POLICY, now being debated in Washington, may bail out recently built state turnpikes that are financial flops, raise value of depressed turnpike bonds. New plan would link turnpikes into $33.5 billion U.S. highway program, have Government reimburse states for their costs. Kansas, Pennsylvania, Kentucky are hoping to unload some turnpikes onto federal network, possibly turn toll roads into free U.S. highways...
Small Voices. In Miami, caught making white lightning while free on bail after an earlier arrest, Moonshiner Lonnie Hastings mourned: "They is so much noise about a still, what with rats rustling around in the bushes and birds singing in the trees, that a feller can't hear them federal agents when they come around...
...Uncle Bill's accounts. Was that all? a director asked Rose. Dramatically, the banker raised his right hand, swore that it was. That night Rose was charged with the federal offense of altering bank records (maximum sentence: $5,000 fine and five years in jail), released on bail...
Happy smiles decorated every face in Ellenville except that of generous Banker Rose. Reason: as soon as his bank was closed, his $25,000 check for bail, drawn on his personal account, had bounced, and he was jailed...