Word: cars
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bettelli of Los Angeles put the late Mark Hellinger's armored car up for sale. The automobile, a 1931 Lincoln eight-cylinder, custom-built town sedan, has one-inch bulletproof glass, armored sides and roof, and has a secret machine-gun compartment. The price...
...boys* had started out by stealing a .30-30 rifle from an unlocked car. Then they broke into a truck, stole cigarettes. Thus equipped, they headed out of town, hid in a ditch, and waited. Soon a car came along. One of the boys, masked with a handkerchief, sprang up, fired a warning shot. The car did not halt. There was another shot, a scream from the car, a slithering to a stop. Farmer James Millar Watson, 62, had been mortally wounded. A week later, when one of the boys confessed, police took them to jail...
...Monday, November 22, two college undergraduates and the daughter of the president of Colby College were stopped and robbed of all their cash by armed bandits, who overtook them near the Harvard Observatory. Last Sunday, another Harvard student drove through a car holdup in Lancaster st., which was apparently not reported to the Cambridge police...
...Crimson should have one of its strongest offenses in years. At right wing is Bill Garrity, one-time all-scholastic whose ineligibility last season was a big blow. Performing at left wing will be big Jack Carman, last year's freshman standout and a Jayvee football tackle this fall. Car man has only had time for five ice workouts, but is ready...
...street was narrow and Sawyer had to pull up alongside a parked automobile. He glanced inside the car and found himself staring at a revolver...