Word: bailing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...quick rise to success Merchant McLane has introduced into Europe the most modern and businesslike American methods of food processing and distribution. But to get where he is, McLane has also used such unbusinesslike methods as smuggling, bribery, corrupting public officials, jumping bail and evading arrest...
...gallons of milk, resold the coffee on the German black market for up to $11 per lb. The scheme worked fine until German customs officials got suspicious, arrested him with a 5,500-lb. load ; of coffee. Friends in the Post Exchange service got him freed on $12,000 bail, and McLane promptly skipped the country. The Germans tried him in absence, found him guilty and sentenced him to seven months in jail...
...affairs, Jamaica has come along fast. The government is now headed by Chief Minister Norman Washington Manley, 62, the West Indies' most successful lawyer before he entered politics in 1938. Under his shrewd eye, Jamaica balances its $60 million annual budget. Money that Britain used to spend to bail the island out of debt is now funneled into "extras" like land development schemes and the newly built University College of the West Indies...
...Clash by Night) Odets, 49, foggily piloted his new Lincoln into a parked car. The target vehicle ricocheted a full 45 feet. Odets flew on. Nabbed soon, he was jailed for nine hours, rapped for drunken driving and for evasive action after a collision, sprung next morning on $263 bail...
Released under $40,000 bail pending appeal on his December 13, 1954 conviction, Carl Braden asserted that the sedition charges against him was a "cover-up" for the dynamiting by white neighbors of the house he bought for a Negro friend...