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...tipsters, hunted with police dogs trained to spot the scent of the grease that is used in preserving guns. They found what they were looking for in walled-up cellars, under haystacks and manure piles, in football stadiums, cemeteries and abandoned churches. By 1950's end, their haul in light arms was almost enough to have equipped six infantry divisions...
During the Eisenhower visit in January the police made a spectacular haul in Milan's O.M. (Officine Mecchaniche) automotive plant. Inside an old, sealed air-raid shelter were a 45-mm. mortar, five antiaircraft guns, 22 machine guns, twelve barrels of tear gas, hundreds of grenades, many small arms, 82 cases of ammunition. A smart police officer narrowly averted a tragedy by cautioning his men not to switch on a light in the shelter; it turned out to be a booby trap set up to detonate...
...costs the U.S. Post Office Department about $4 a mile to haul mail 20 miles in a 60-ft. railroad car. For a truck carrying half as much mail, the cost is 30? a mile plus terminal handling charges. Last week the Post Office said that it would soon start using trucks, instead of railroads, for short hauls within a 200-mile radius of big cities. Truck routes have already been laid out around Boston and St. Louis, with plans for nine other big-city areas to follow. Eventual revenue loss to U.S. railroads, already hard hit by truck competition...
...this is done by Wednesday, a little man from Phillips Brooks House will appear and amiably haul off the debris. P.B.H. will repair all clothes and send them to European students along with any books collected. Local settlement house children will get all sports equipment...
...number of truck models to 29 (ranging from a 17,000-lb. short-haul truck for $3,000 to a 75,000-lb. off -highway goliath); he reduced the number of different parts by 25%. He centralized purchasing, doubled the advertising budget, jacked up the sales divisions...