Word: clerke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...days after the crash a coroner's jury, which had studied reports on the broken wreckage of the unburned plane, blamed the disaster on a "mysterious explosion in a forward luggage compartment." Company investigators and local police were already on the job. The Mounties moved in. An airport clerk had reported that all packages but one aboard the DC-3 had been shipped by well-known shippers. The exception was checked...
Just before the plane took off from Quebec City, an excited woman had arrived at the field by taxi. She had a package which was suspiciously overweight for its size, but with the plane already warming up, the clerk rushed it aboard. The package was addressed to a Mr. Larouche at Baie Comeau. Mr. Larouche, it turned out, did not exist...
General Manager James Floyd Albright, a onetime soda clerk who began at Cokesbury as a shipping clerk in 1925, has a simple explanation for what makes books so popular in Dallas: "It's aggressive salesmanship. That and a large stock. We want to have books people want when they come in here...
...bogs, fell into brambles, sprained my ankle in a slough. 'Mon Dieu' I said to myself, 'have they ceased to be watchful along their coasts, these British?' Finally I found a house. The people took me to a post office. There was a pretty little clerk there and she made two telephone calls-one to the police and one to the Daily Express in London...
...reddening. Nobody knows exactly how much X ray can be given repeatedly without causing chronic skin damage. Dr. Hempelmann believes that the dangers could be controlled by regulating the use of the machines. Other doctors think that for normal feet the best shoe-fitting machine is a patient shoe clerk...