Word: billing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When her father left one day to visit his tobacco farm, Lulu Belle slipped Jim the keys. He let out his pal, Bill ("Bad Eye") Wilson. They grabbed Jailer Kimel's gun from his office, commandeered a taxi, bound and gagged the driver, Wilkes Swing, and drove to Godwin's home in High Point for clothes and another...
While she was being sentenced to 60 days, word came that a posse had got Jim Godwin. Hefty, heartbroken Lulu Belle wept again. That report was false, but after Bill Wilson lost his nerve, sneaked away and squealed, they did get Godwin, subdued him with a load of bird shot in the face. He still swore he had planned to come back for Lulu Belle and go straight -after he had robbed enough gas stations. Lulu Belle, out on $200 bail and hiding her fat red face at home, didn't believe him this time. She had found...
...blamed the increased but chronic French Treasury shortage entirely on that, and Premier Daladier set about trying to revalue the gold reserve-which was last revalued in July 1937-so as to make a "paper profit" last week of 34,500,000,000 francs ($931,500,000). The mobilization bill was footed at 12,800,000,000 francs; 4,000,000,000 was paid in cash to those who through necessity or fear withdrew their money from the savings banks when France started to "march''-not to war, as it turned...
...Southwest Conference, cradle of wide open, razzle-dazzle play, few experts dared predict a champion. Some fancied Baylor because of its quarterback, Bill Patterson, who last season threw 150 passes-of which 50 were completed and only 13 intercepted-for an average gain of 4.5 yards for each pass attempted...
While Northwestern waited for its potential jackpot, Freshman Bill de Correvont who scored 211 points for Chicago's Austin High School last year, to join the varsity, the Midwest lacked headline heroes. Minnesota appeared to be the team to beat. Perilously close behind in popular appraisal, however, were Wisconsin, Ohio State, Illinois, Northwestern and even Michigan...