Word: manhunt
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...days Decca was deluged with orders for 600,000 disks. Publisher Marks wondered what to do with Johnny Black's royalties. Black hadn't left a record of any family connections, but someone thought he remembered that his aged father was still alive. Publisher Marks' manhunt finally tracked down one John L. Black, an 84-year-old living with a half-dozen other people in a cheap boardinghouse in Hamilton, Ohio. By the first of the year his accumulated royalties will...
...railroads needed 3,200 more men at once to 1) get the freight to the piers, 2) get the boxcars moving west for another load. Off on a manhunt went the War Manpower Commission and Railroad Retirement Board. Said WMC's Major Howard J. Lepper: "This is no sissy job. It calls for husky workers with a stiff backbone and plenty of muscle. But I'll even take women provided they have plenty of beef...
Long-haired, tiny-mustached M. Guigui read a prepared statement on French labor's resistance to Germany's manhunt for manpower. Then a London Daily Herald reporter asked: "To what extent do the French people distrust De Gaulle's Bonapartist tendencies...
Last Friday afternoon he was trapped in the most thorough manhunt ting him when he entered the court Harvard has seen in a decade. Spot-the Lowell men threw a net of athletic huskies around the building and then, joined by four yardcops, began a three-quarters of an hour chase through the entries and basement tunnels. Once he was trapped in a fifth floor closet but escaped again for the moment. Finally caught he attempted to bluff his way out but was taken to the Cambridge jail and held for trial...
...late leaders were herded into a concentration camp at Dragoslav. Last week the Marshal again justified his nickname when he and a number of lesser officers executed a mass escape from their camp and apparently from Rumania. The Gestapo, Nazi Army, Iron Guard and Rumanian police launched a nationwide manhunt, but found no trace of the nimble one. Reports from Budapest said he was aboard a steamer bound for Turkey...