Word: freeport
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Among them: Pan American Airways, Technicolor, Inc., Freeport Sulphur Co., Gone With the Wind, Life with Father...
This week three other Pennsylvania trains were wrecked on a single night. At Freeport, Pa., Engineer W. T. Nixon was killed when his locomotive rammed a standing freight. At Belvidere, N.J., three were injured in a similar crash. And just east of the now infamous Bennington curve, three cars of an eastbound freight jumped the tracks...
Horned Dilemma. Near Freeport, Ill., Carnation Imperial Inka Premier, a $5,000 prize bull, roared in anguish and gradually lost 400 pounds, while his owner pottered over him with two Army-type mine detectors, trying to find out which of the four stomachs (normal for bulls) contained a piece of metal the champ had swallowed...
...Bertram M. Campbell, 60, British-born Wall Street customer's man who in 1938 was falsely convicted of forgery and sent to Sing Sing, was cleared of all charges (when a dope-peddling professional forger finally confessed) after 40 months of unjust imprisonment; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Freeport...
...Briarcliff Manor, N.Y., a mouse shut off the electricity. In Freeport, Ill., an owl jammed a high-tension transformer...