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GREENVILLE, S.C., May 14--R. Carlos Hurd, Sr., a 45-year-old taxicab dispatcher, was named in statements today by three of the 31 defendants as the man who fired shotgun volleys through the head of a gashed and beaton Negro, 24-year-old Willie Earle...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Defendants Name Slayer of Negro In South Carolina Shotgun Killing; Senate Votes Full Foreign Relief | 5/15/1947 | See Source »

...control. The Democrats were for it. If they were crazy last year, why should we be this year?" Big-"city Congressmen were just as angry for the opposite reason. They claimed that a provision permitting a 15% rent boost in return for a two-year lease was putting a shotgun in the landlord's hands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Congress' Week, May 12, 1947 | 5/12/1947 | See Source »

...acid was thrown. Communists dashed through the streets of Rangoon in a green jeep, shouting: "Rebellion, rebellion! Rise, rise!" A couple of polling booths outside the city were burned. The only bloodshed in Rangoon occurred when a constable accidentally discharged a shotgun into his foot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BURMA: A Little Fruit | 4/21/1947 | See Source »

...come true. Strikes had dwindled. Production was up. Shelves were loaded with things which a few months ago would have drawn milling crowds, no matter what their prices-roasts, steaks, white shirts, nylons, alarm clocks, men's suits. Canned beer was back and so were fishing tackle, shotgun shells and golf balls. But prices stayed stubbornly high or got higher. Everywhere, the biggest single continuing topic of conversation was the high cost of living-people talked endlessly of how much more they had enjoyed on much less before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: Late Spring | 3/24/1947 | See Source »

...night last week, McNear's rugged individualism boomeranged. As he strolled near his home in Peoria, somebody murdered him with a single shotgun blast. At week's end there were few clues, but $41,615 in rewards...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Boomerang | 3/24/1947 | See Source »

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