Word: stops
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...talk, pure and simple. At 8:30 three carloads of Customs men and two launches were patrolling the area by land and sea. A batch of Treasury men lounged elaborately around at the pier. Into this ambush walked Amateur DeGhett. At midnight he finally induced the T-men to stop third-degreeing and open the packages. In them they found a walking stick for DeGhett, a hand made basket for Mrs. Hall...
...last week, with wheels down, another Frobisher dropped down on roomy Croydon. Its legs collapsed, and it slid ignominiously to a stop on its belly. This time the passengers, 21 of them, were plain scared, thoroughly shaken up. Imperial imperturbably grounded the 234-mile-an-hour ships to get the bugs out of the landing gear. At week's end the ships were restored to service. The mishap, said bland Imperial, was "due to the unusual state ol the airdrome surface, not to a mechanical defect." Nineteen-year-old Croydon is one of the oldest and best-tended...
...extended to some 16,000,000 uninsured workers. Though this liberalization of benefits would inevitably siphon off some of the eventual $47,000,000,000 reserve, as the Board intended it should, the President avoided direct mention of the reserve or of the Board's advice to stop hiking payroll taxes after...
Kidnapper Rufus McCain, Robbers Henri Young and William Martin surrendered. It took a bullet through both legs to stop Kidnapper Dale Stamphill. For Arthur ("Doc") Barker, kidnapping associate of Alcatraz' notorious inmate Alvin ("Old Creepy") Karpis, it took a shot in the head and death...
...chain does not stop where Mr. Shipton has left off, however, for the pages of the directory are now graced with the name of Leverett IV, a member of the Class of 1939. His family have set a precedent which he will have to maintain...