Word: ganged
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Nuclear Laboratory has a staff of about 40 people which includes researchers, electronics experts and highly skilled maintenance men. Besides their normal duties, the staff must perform as a construction gang when any new apparatus is being built...
...federal sleuths of the Post Office Inspection Service (who now. presumably qualify for abbreviation as P-men). When a post-office inspector is murdered, Inspector Ladd gets the job of running down the killers. He finds his suspects planning a foolproof $1,000,000 postal robbery, joins the gang's conspiracy in the guise of a bribe-hungry cop. Ladd's risky masquerade finally lands him in a mess that only fists, bullets and fast footwork can straighten out, but not before the picture works its familiar story into well-tied knots of suspense...
Little Men, Big World, by W. R. Burnett. Fast-moving gang novel by the author of Little Caesar and High Sierra (TIME...
Arky got into the gang almost on a fluke. Up for a manslaughter charge, he drew unexpected mercy from Judge Greet, who made him his chauffeur. To Arky's surprise, Judge Greet, admired civic leader, was also the local racket boss. Out of loyalty, Arky became his trusted agent...
...downfall of Arky and Judge Greet is the subject of Little Men, Big World, a speedy tabloid novel. The mob is beset by two enemies: a big-city gang trying to muscle in, and a dull but startlingly honest police commissioner who is trying to clean up the town. In a flash-bang climax, the judge is killed by the rival mobsters, Arky avenges the murder in a downtown hotel, is caught by the cops, slips away, is caught again. In the end, facing the chair, he feels a sudden surge of relief, which may even be the first...