Word: gunmen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...amusement park at the mouth of the Detroit River in Lake Erie, bandits escaped with $10,000. There were bank stickups at Blenheim and at Bath. Two gunmen took $11,000 from messengers of a Toronto trucking company. Then four gunmen, surprised while robbing a Toronto automobile dealer's office, shot it out with police and escaped...
Then she screamed. Zagata dived for a side door. Two gunmen who had silently appeared in the kitchen entrance killed Policeman Lundy by firing seven revolver slugs into his big body...
Nerve News. In Chicago, burglars got into police headquarters, leisurely cleaned the detective bureau of $10,000 in cash and jewelry, left a litter of 70-odd cigaret butts and burnt matches. Few days later gunmen pinched one of Mayor Kelly's brand-new police-escort cars, used it in four holdups, finally abandoned it and vanished without trace...
...mystery of the fake funeral picture of Adolf Hitler, which Argentina's Ahora said that it received by telephoto from Berlin (TIME, July 2), was solved. It proved to be a retouched 1934 photograph of Austria's Chancellor Dollfuss, murdered by Hitler's Nazi gunmen, lying in state (see cut). Somebody had simply dubbed in Hitler's face...
...Edwin even more than the smell of bindings, and to Pelican-partner Vera-Ellen who, he learns, expects to marry him-as Buzzy-next afternoon. To make matters worse Buzzy's ghost, floored by a hangover, defaults during a crucial interview with the D.A. At last, hounded by gunmen and police alike, the frantic Edwin contrives to costume and beard himself and squall his information to the Law from the bewildered vortex of an opera stage...