Word: roadblockers
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...name of an official on them, and cashed $4,200 worth in three days. Then he left on a five-state joy ride in a new convertible. Eight months later, he was arrested in Lubbock, Texas, in a shower of bullets, when he attempted to ram through a roadblock. He was sentenced to 60 days in jail for bootlegging, was later handed over to the Denver police to face the forgery charges. But when his family offered $2,500 in partial restitution on the stolen $4,200 and promised that Jack would repay the rest...
...zest, more rested, more tranquil than I have seen him in many months. Why? Because he was doing the thing on which, above all else, his heart and mind are set: to try to set the world on the pathway to better peace and to build an unpassable roadblock in front of a possibly hydrogen...
DIXON-YATES contract has run into another roadblock, this time from the Government's General Accounting Office. GAO's new boss, Comptroller General Joseph Campbell, who voted for the contract as a member of the AEC, has advised the commission to hold it up. He wants ironclad assurances from Ebasco Services Inc., slated to build the big steam plant at West Memphis, Ark., that construction will not cost more than the $104 million estimate. What worries Campbell is a previous Ebasco contract for a steam plant at Joppa, Ill. to supply the AEC. There costs turned...
...mere ten years after Yalta, Germany will receive national sovereignty, the right to create a 500,000-man army, to join NATO and a seven-nation Western European Union. After a short debate, the Bundesrat completed (29 to 9) ratification of the Paris treaties. Now the only possible roadblock to German rearmament is the French Senate, which is scheduled to vote this week...
...dignified officials from London's Colonial Office, attending a dance recital, leaped gaily up and joined the cast in a calypso "jump-up" while a steel band drummed and clanged. It was a week for exuberance in Trinidad: swiftly, almost offhandedly, the assembled leaders tore down the biggest roadblock in the way of fast-approaching nationhood for the British West Indian colonies...