Word: hauls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Marc Fisher-Galati, an ex-paratrooper, tried to pull shut the partially opened door of an Eastern airliner. The door, hinged at the bottom, fell open. Fisher-Galati plunged forward, was saved when his leg caught in a chain supporting the door. One of the crew tried vainly to haul Fisher-Galati back into the plane. He hung head downward for about ten minutes until the plane made an emergency landing...
...robbers conferred, hurriedly grabbed a last batch of moneybags and glided away. In their haste they left at least $1,000,000 behind -but it had been a profitable 20 minutes anyhow. Their take was $1,000,000 in cash and $500,000 in checks, the largest cash haul in U.S. history...
Apparently satisfied with their $1,500,000 haul, the underworld brains who robbed Brink's garage have decided that enough is enough. Boston police yesterday discovered a note from the hold-up men, hastily scrawled in an untutored hand on a five-dollar bill, which stated tersely, "No Crime until Saturday...
...their grievances under the windows of the Casa Crema, Mexico's cream-colored White House, even though President Aleman was out of town. When police discovered that the drivers had no permit for any such demonstration, they arrested 111 drivers for disorderly conduct, brought up tow trucks to haul their cabs away...