Word: satchels
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...philosopher Satchel Paige might have said, the U.S. shouldn't look back: other countries are gaining on its lead in productivity. In the past decade, U.S. output per hour worked in manufacturing has risen only 27%, exactly the same as anemic Britain's, much less than half as much as that of robust France, West Germany and even Italy, and only one-quarter as much as Japan...
...satchel used to conceal weapons in the Moro kidnaping was found at the scene. It was a German-made case of a type not normally exported to Italy...
...school, the troops used satchel charges to widen the gap made by the armored car, causing thunderous explosions that awoke sleeping villagers and brought them running into the street. Soldiers shouted, "Give up! Give up! You are surrounded!" Some of the onlookers clasped their hands in front of their eyes, afraid to look at the scene of battle. Cried one woman: "Dear God, they're all dead!" One by one, the soldiers led the four captured Moluccans from the building and forced them to lie down for a body search. At 6 o'clock the villagers saw teachers...
...that its mobsters always have money problems. For one thing, the tidal wave of cash from the rackets, mostly in small bills, is difficult to handle. The Gambino family solves this by paying friendly bank employees to exchange small bills for big ones that can be transported easily in satchel-size bundles...
...dragnet that followed, police from a dozen countries put together a fairly complete profile of Carlos without ever being able to find him. In a satchel which Carlos had left with a friend in London's Bayswater, they found a passport and a photograph, along with a list of 500 prominent names apparently targeted for kidnaping or assassination, including Playwright John Osborne, his actress wife Jill Bennett and Violinist Yehudi Menuhin. In Paris, police discovered an apartment with a nearly complete ammunition dump of dynamite, submachine guns and homemade bombs, along with equipment to make counterfeit documents. There...