Word: stops
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Near Somerville, N. J. one day last month Trooper William A. Turnbull of New Jersey's State Police sighted a blue sedan scorching down the highway, gave chase, forced the speeders to stop. While he was arguing with the driver, another man and a woman got out of the automobile, poked pistols in his back. In the car they stripped, bound and wrapped him in a blanket, drove 50 miles to a spot near Bethlehem, Pa. where they dumped him out with his wrists bound, lips taped...
...halt immigration of any more such pests as the corn-borer, Japanese beetle or red scale, the U. S. Public Health Service insists that all planes from South America or Asia must be sprayed. Pan American Airways conscientiously sprays its Pacific Clippers with a pyrethrum extract at each stop. Aircraft from Canada and Europe, where pests and diseases are rarer than in the plague-laden Orient, are merely inspected...
...Copenhagen last month. Hailed now as the most dangerous rivals to the German team of Heinz Vopel and Gustav Kilian, who recently passed a cycle of nine six-day races without losing one, Walthour & Crossley this week sail for a bicycle tour of Europe starting with a six-day stop at Antwerp...
...myself together and a sprinkle of cold water on my face does wonders, and we go to Boston. H--is buying a Christmas present for his baby niece in Omaha. He picks out a wooly white cat, very gaga, with green wool eyes. The cat and H--and I stop for a milkshake, my half-eclipsed condition precluding more nocuous refreshment...
...March of Time makes stop-offs this time at the P.W.A.'s venture into the show business, the prospects of the St. Lawrence Seaway, and the activities of King Leopold of Belgium against Fascist Leo Degrelle and toward strongly armed neutrality...