Word: bailing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Allegedly on their way to Smith College, the three "took the first car they found," according to police. They can be freed on bail, but one officer said "I don't see where they are going to get the money...
Already facing a five-year stretch for evading payment of $28,532 in federal income taxes, Manhattan's Italian-born Gambler Frank Costello, floating loose on $50,000 bail, gingerly peeked at a suspicious Christmas greeting from New York State revenooers. If he expected the worst, he got it: a claim on Costello for a jarring $190,982.24 in unpaid state income taxes. Further robbing Costello of holiday cheer, the federals recently vetoed his plea to let him get out of town, thus cancelled his annual pilgrimage to Hot Springs, Ark., where he might have shaken off his perennial...
...Agustin had jailed for failing to contribute to his fund haled the mayor to court for illegal taxation. Don Agustin was forced to resign his office. He was free on bail during the five years it took the slow-moving Fascist courts to bring him to trial. When he was tried a year ago, the court said it was sorry, but the fact remained: Don Agustin had violated the law. He was sentenced to one month and a day in jail, fined 1,580 pesetas and ordered to pay back every cent (total 604,367 pesetas) he had extorted...
...hair-raising story of the first pilot to bail out of an airplane at supersonic speed-and live to tell at least part of the tale-was released this week by North American Aviation...
...budge, and the airplane's path steepened into a dive. Smith called the airport tower over his radio: "Lost hydraulic pressure. Controls frozen. Going straight in." By then his dive angle was almost vertical. A pilot in an F-100 saw him head toward the cloud deck. "Bail out!" he begged by radio. "Bail out, George...