Word: drives
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sheriff Sylvester and his brother Cass grabbed their rifles and drove a few miles south of Plattsmouth to a filling station. Waiting there they soon saw a car racing along at 60 m. p. h. They let it pass and followed it. Soon the bandits slowed down, began to drive a weaving course pretending they were drunken drivers to tempt their pursuers alongside. The Sylvesters refused to be tempted, finally cornered their men at the dead end of a street in Plattsmouth. Sheriff Sylvester and his brother had them covered. Power and Suhay surrendered without a shot, were disarmed...
This week as the war's ninth month slid into the past, the Leftists hastily mobilized peasants and city workers to push the fierce drive few miles to the northwest of Teruel, General Franco's powerful garrison in eastern Spain, 150 miles from Madrid. Again and again the Leftists, backed by war planes, thrust forward in an effort to weaken General Franco's hold in that critical sector lest he succeed in wrecking their communications between Valencia and Barcelona...
...Philadelphia press blossomed with predictions that the houses would be raided, the bars smashed. Less impulsive, Penn's administration promised no raiding or snooping if bars and bottles were out of sight by spring. For this wave of righteousness most observers credited President Thomas Sovereign Gates's drive for contributions for Penn's 1940 Bicentennial...
...eight hours in every 24. If any pilot exceeds these maximums, he is fined $500. Last week a parallel regulation for truck drivers was underscored as Magistrate's Court in Flushing, L. I. brought in the first conviction under a new State law forbidding truck drivers to drive more than ten hours in any consecutive 14. The culprit was one Joseph Simon. Inspector Samuel Sussman of the Department of Markets trailed Driver Simon on a 16-hr. trip with only three brief stops from Long Island City to Pottsville, Pa. and back. Declaring that the law's prime...
...action that may or may not signalize the opening of a drive on tutoring schools, the Council of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences took yesterday a step in that direction...