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Immediately 700 police were sent to scour Queensborough. That night, patrolmen dressed as women sat with plainclothesmen in parked cars wherever lovers were known to hold trysts. Suspects were arrested in New York State, New Jersey, even as far away as Philadelphia, but the Misses May and Ring failed to recognize any of them. More wild, coded notes to the police and the Journal kept special police squads rushing about Long Island and Westchester, to no avail...
...Borland were not in the snow-drifted plane. The motor had been flung 100 ft. by the crash. The untouched supplies suggested they had not lived to attempt to trudge to shelter. The Nanuk notified all search parties, sent men to dig in the drifts for the bodies, to scour the adjacent coast. Last remaining ray of hope: skiis which Eielson and Borland carried with them were missing from the wrecked plane...
...basic books of the course, a French text of Rabelais, could not be imported into this country according to a recent interpretation of the law by the customs authorities. To gather sufficient volumes for the students enrolled in this course, the Harvard Co-operative Society was forced to scour book marts of the country for copies that had already been imported...
...Combination red soap and steel wool in a green box, used by housewives to scour stubborn pots & pans) Sales, 5 mos. ending...
...attack the Democratic nominee for president of the Anti-Smith forces and by those who were religiously intolerant. There arc those in the South who regard religious liberty as the peculiar privilege of their own kind. There are also women in Texas who offered prizes to those who would "scour" the country and secure the most votes for Hoover. (Was it the women who were to purify politics?). . . . Jo MILLER GRAVES...