Word: stolen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Combined Operations. In Pueblo, Colo., police spotted a stolen car, found the driver was 1 ) a small boy at the wheel, 2) another small boy squatting on the floor operating the clutch and accelerator...
...rich tin mines and oil pools of The Netherlands East Indies had been prize loot for the Japanese. Dropping all such stolen property last month, the Japs took time to throw a sharp tack in the path of the former owners. On Java they granted independence to a "Republic of Indonesia." Its head: Dutch-educated Soekarno, 40, a longtime, long-winded nationalist orator...
...sits down and writes about it. Last week this postwar prerogative got off to a pedestrian start when Major General Edward P. King Jr. led off with five articles (for NANA) about his internment in Jap prison camps. A faster-talking general, in a press interview, had already stolen General King's newsiest plum: that King's superior (and prison roommate), General Jonathan M. Wainwright, was twice knocked down by Jap guards...
Watch the Fords Go By. In Birmingham, Daniel Ford's stolen Ford was recovered by State Highway Patrolman Grady Ford...
Going His Way. In Salt Lake City, Motorist Keith Perry's suitcase was stolen but he set out for Ogden anyway, picked up two hitchhikers, drove them - and his suitcase - to the Ogden police station...