Word: gunning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...friend, locked them up with tire tape on their eyes and mouths. Then the raiders looked about for loot. First they chose the things they liked best, several bottles of confiscated liquor. Next they chose the things which they needed most: 8500 from the safe, rifles, pistols, a machine-gun, 500 rounds of ammunition. Then they chose the things which would be most helpful to them in business: 20 seized slot machines valued at $125 and containing $500 in nickels & dimes. With these articles neatly packed in their truck, the Crookston crooks drove away. Hours later the jailers & friend were...
...been lying low since the bloody Auburn Prison riot of 1929 in which he was one of two prisoners to escape. He had been posing as a windshield-wiper salesman. In his sample case was found another gun. Up to 1929, Arthur Barry had robbed rich Long Island and Connecticut homes of $2,000,000 in jewels. Among his victims were the first Mrs. Clarence Mackay, Joshua Cosden, Mr. & Mrs. Jesse Livermore. While robbing the Livermore bedroom, suave Arthur Barry courteously lit a cigaret for Mrs. Livermore, refrained from taking a ring which she particularly fancied, hoped it would bring...
While the organ groaned softly Rev. Wolfgang Schanze braced himself for the 21-gun salute which he knew would blaze away as soon as the bride and groom exchanged rings in the Coburg fashion. "Dearly beloved," cried Pastor Schanze, "the formation of a marriage which can stand before God and man is no light thing. . . . For you, dear bride, it means hoisting your sails-toward a new life...
...whole week thereafter Japanese never ceased to fete the happy man from Manchukuo. As a special treat he was taken to a pond in the gardens of the Royal Palace, given a gun, permitted to shoot tame ducks...
Automobile production last week sank to 12,000 units. In Detroit everybody knew that the big producers, their selling season over, were laying 1933 plans. Usually model and price changes are announced at the New York Automobile Show. But last week Walter P. Chrysler jumped the gun and stated that his Plymouth was withdrawing from the four-cylinder field, would come out as a six to sell below the present $700 base price of the four. "The best evidence of confidence we can give" was the way he referred to the $10,000,000 which Chrysler Corp. has spent...