Word: dragnet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Pearl Harbor broke the spell. A U.S.Peruvian dragnet swept up the Japanese leaders, sent some 1,500 of them to the U.S. The humbler Japs were not molested; Peruvians hoped that the small fry, freed from Tokyo domination, would not be a serious menace. The 1,500 deportees were still in the U.S. last week. Peru did not care what happened to them so long as they were not shipped back to Peru...
...greatest dragnet roundups of all time, the U.S. Army in Germany arrested 80,000 Germans last week. To prevent alarm-spreading, a half-million G.I.s first isolated the target communities by cutting their outside communications, then searched all houses in the U.S. zone, stopped every person moving on the streets and roads. Some 15,000,000 Germans were sifted through the screen...
...keeping with the Hollywood motif, Barker's has a lobby which is a replica of a Moorish palace. Customers are seined in by a sales dragnet formed of all Barker employes (even janitors get commissions). They are further tracked down by means of a 15-ft. map of the city on which pins show new homeowners; other variously colored pins mark every major purchase at Barker's (gold if Barker's furnishes everything...
...Dragnet. In Salt Lake City, a would-be burglar was beaned with a coffee pot at the Johnsons' house, fell through a glass door at the Wakes', was caught by the Drurys' daughter, Fern...
Little Ferry Command. In Little Ferry, N.J., Police Chief Frank Trinka put out a dragnet for his lost, six-by-nine-foot headquarters...