Word: carl
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Life. In Los Angeles, Harry Hetzler insisted to police that it was impossible for his car to have been stolen because 1) it was parked just outside, 2) his dog was in it and would have barked, and 3) Ranch Hand Carl Thomas would have heard the noise and called him; the police patiently explained to Hetzler that 1) the car was in Yuma, Ariz., 2) the dog was still in it but sitting quietly, and 3) Ranch Hand Thomas had been arrested as the thief...
...Swung decisively into action when he heard that the Veterans Administration had ordered a New Mexico veterans' hospital closed, right in the middle of Secretary of Agriculture Clint Anderson's campaign for U.S. Senator. He promptly authorized Anderson and New Mexico's Senator Carl Hatch to announce in his name that the hospital would not close after...
...East is not altogether effete, however: the Colorado Springs boosters had reckoned without the citizens of Sackets Harbor. Growled Mayor Carl M. Jackson: "General Pike's been buried here for more than a century, and we mean to keep him here...
...smoked it out was Carl Estes, oilman, publisher, and one of the principal Lone Star organizers. Ailing Mr. Estes was brought to the meeting on a stretcher. While his doctor plied him with pills, he read off a ten-page blast at management for selling pig iron to outsiders at little more than half the Texas market price. Who were the buyers? Why were these money-losing deals made...
Yaleman Beirne Lay Jr. (I Wanted Wings) was commander of the 48th Bomb Group when he was shot down over France (the French underground rescued him and he was back in England three months later). Sy Bartlett, aide-de-camp to General Carl ("Tooey") Spaatz, was one of the first U.S. Air Forces men to arrive in England, flew on many a mission over Europe and later over Japan. Their book, for all its embarrassing concessions to scenario requirements, is an exciting, credible record of what was felt and endured by the first U.S. bomber crews to tangle with...