Word: owners
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...license number, then punched it into his computer-which is part of the Treasury Emergency Communication System and is tied into the Federal Bureau of Investigation's national crime computers. Almost instantaneously, the FBI told the customs official "yes": there was an arrest warrant outstanding for the owner of the car somewhere...
...riding the Pony Express through a tribe of angry Comanches. A natural flyer, with as certain a feel for the whim of his plane as a bareback rider for his horse, he was ineluctably drawn to aviation's biggest prize: $25,000, offered by a New York hotel owner for the first successful completion of the 3,600-mile solo flight between New York and Paris. With the backing of some young St. Louis businessmen and $2,000 from his own savings, Lindbergh ordered a plane built by Ryan Airlines in San Diego to his peculiar specifications...
...cocaine. Sepe ordered him to teach art to mentally retarded children at Miami's Hope School. To Garrett, the experience was the most rewarding of his life; he now is part of the school's paid staff. Carl Dachton had a similar experience. A gun-shop owner held in contempt for temporarily returning a customer's guns in violation of a court order, he was required to take five white, five black and five Cuban boys on trips to the Everglades "to teach them to know and love the outdoors as you do." Delighted with the task...
...their public optimism, few W.F.L. owners are predicting quick profits. Chicago Fire Owner Tom Origer has said that he is ready to accept losses of $5 million before making a cent. Most owners are counting on the eventual higher value of their franchises to recoup their heavy initial outlays. With such N.F.L. superstars as Larry Csonka, Calvin Hill and Jim Kiick scheduled to come aboard next year, the W.F.L. investments may well turn into winners ahead of schedule...
...only six years of formal education who left his job as a trolley-car operator in Columbus and drifted to Southern California in search of warmer weather. After Frank married Hannah in 1908, he was barely able to scrape by as a citrus-fruit farmer, grocer and gas-station owner. A neighbor described Frank Nixon as "brusque, loud, dogmatic...