Word: murdertown
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Dates: during 1958-1958
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Viewing the general condition with considerable alarm, members of Houston's Junior Chamber of Commerce organized a group bluntly called the Murdertown Committee, sent observers to Chicago (murders, first-half 1957: 131) to study crime-prevention methods. Other Houstonians, scanning the city's growing, two-fisted boomtown bustle, agree that the committee will have to work fast. At week's end Murdertown notched up its eleventh murder for 1958-a good head start on last year's record...
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