Word: offs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Suicide in a Canoe. Another report to the FBI told of how a 48-year-old Harvard graduate named Morton E. Kent had allegedly tried to get in touch with a Bulgarian suspected of being a Russian intelligence agent. This touched off a set of secondary explosions.
Shortly after midnight, 76 sweltering Puerto Ricans and five crew members jammed into a reconverted war-surplus Curtiss Commando twin-engined plane at San Juan, P.R. The first passengers aboard grabbed the leatherette bus seats in the middle aisle. The late ones squeezed into bucket seats along the walls. Five...
A few miles away, Mrs. Hugh McDanal, 42, dressed in nightgown and slippers, was talking to a friend on the telephone. Her truck-driver husband was away on a night run. There were sounds of footsteps on the porch and men's voices demanding to be let in. She...
General Douglas MacArthur usually sloughs off Soviet gibes at his occupation policies with silent, five-starred disdain. Last week he broke with custom, made a sharp reply to the latest official Russian blast against him-a letter from Lieut. General Kuzma N. Derevyanko, Soviet member of the Allied Council for...
Bombs soared into the air and burst a thousand feet above the harbor into terrible yellow blossom. Shrapnel peppered the brick walls of the warehouses, plowed the planks off the pier, and rained down upon the hissing waters. Shells shot hither & thither, exploding under the touch of the terrific heat...