Word: offs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Squeeze Play. In Tampa, Fla., state highway Trooper K. E. Flint picked up a drunk in his patrol car, stopped and got out to collar a second, watched the first drive off in the police car.
The Navy has tried to shoo the gooneys away. Sailormen have attempted to drive them out by burning old tires, scare them put by dropping flares on them and shooting off rifles, bazookas and mortars near them. When the gooneys stoically ignored it all, the Navy people called upon the...
The Navy's latest proposed stratagem is simple: a bash on the head for every gooney. But chances are this plan will never really get off the ground. First of all, it will take the Navy at least five years to purge the birds: young gooneys leave Midway shortly...
In an attempt to soothe man and bird alike, the Navy is creating an airport for albatrosses on the nearby, nonstrategic island of Kure, hopes to build up the small albatross population there (current count: 700). Fortnight ago Navy bulldozers cut a series of 50-ft. swaths through the brush...
States' Rights. In Carbonear, Newfoundland, the city council turned off water for ten days at the federal post office and customs building because the government had not paid its water bill.