Word: copse
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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¶ Los Angeles cops had to sweat to unravel traffic jams when two neighboring drugstores got involved in a furious price war. The store managers kept each other under surveillance with "price spies," set up sidewalk blackboards to notify street crowds of new price cuts, drew mobs of customers by...
Meanwhile, the Russians established some more contacts. Tommy-gun-toting German police from the Russian zone raided a farm on Berlin's outskirts on the British-Soviet line. They made off with 38 cows, 34 horses, twelve sheep, eight hogs, three typewriters, three telephones, a set of china. When...
Thoroughly frightened, Mrs. Kowalsky hurried to her home next door, thought it over for a while and called the cops. With axes and crowbars, policemen dug into a little closet-like room and brought to light the psychiatric mystery of the week.
Lawyer-Detective Perry Mason wasn't looking for all the trouble he got. He was just trying to find the hit & run driver who had put his client in the hospital; all he wanted was a fair settlement. Of course, any Erie Stanley Gardner fan could have told Perry...
A covey of naked rookie cops bolted out of the shower room at Seattle's police training school, reached the street, and bolted back in when they realized what kind of an impression they were making. A 71-year-old woman jumped off a bridge at a hamlet named...