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...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...
General Hershey told the committee that it will be necessary to "invade homes quite considerably." The new dragnet will have a smaller mesh. Commenting on past abuses of deferment privileges, General Hershey remarked dryly: "I must confess that we have found a great number of men who have assumed new and heavy responsibilities at home...