Word: duffel
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...City Star, saying: "M. Will meet you in Chicago Sunday. G." At Kansas City's Commerce Trust Co., Arthur B. Eisenhower, executive vice president of the bank and President Eisenhower's brother, set 80 clerks to work assembling the 40.000 pieces of currency. Stuffed into an Army duffel bag, the money weighed...
Receipt Delayed. Robert Ledterman and Norbert O'Neill, business associates of Bobby's father, made two abortive efforts to deliver the ransom to Hall. The first time his instructions were too confused to follow. Next, the cash-filled duffel bag was dropped off in a rural spot, but Hall telephoned to say that he had not found it. Ledterman and O'Neill went back and retrieved...
Thirty-five minutes later, Ledterman and O'Neill left the duffel bag at the end of a highway bridge in a heavily wooded area ten miles east of Kansas City. They drove away. Carl Hall scrambled up from a hiding place under the bridge. He put the bag in the station wagon parked in a thicket near by. Bonnie Heady, he said later, was sprawled "in an alcoholic stupor" in the car. Hall did not wait round to count the money-three times larger than any ransom ever paid in the U.S. He never did get around to counting...
...height of the retreat from the Chosin Reservoir last winter, Meirowsky arrived at Hamhung with a duffel bag full of instruments. He elbowed some space in a field hospital, persuaded a peacetime obstetrician to team up with him, and got to work. By the time the evacuation was over, he had proved his point that brain operations could be performed under com bat conditions...
...urgent needs: 32,000 field jackets, 100,000 blankets, 37,000 combat boots, etc. By week's end, after spending $600,000, he had filled most of his needs, though the Army had to pay $6 a pair for shoes it had sold at $1, and 89? for duffel bags sold...