Word: suits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...armies are just holding their own against the subversive forces of Communism, and should the hypothetical case of complete disarmament become a reality, Western countries such as France, Italy and Finland could fall without a shot being fired, and the rest of the world-according to Lenin-would follow suit as docile stock being led to the slaughterhouse...
Heavy Industry. In Montreal, Canadian National Railways filed suit for $30,265 against two men for taking up two miles of railroad track and selling it for scrap...
...film company appealed the decision. Last week, answering the suit, the Justice Department completely scuttled the Post Office Department's case by admitting that "the postal cards at issue are neither obscene, lewd, lascivious nor filthy." United Artists has only to go to court and ask that the case be thrown out-a request no judge could deny...
...Gunman. Cruising the Autobahnen by daylight in Roden's Mercedes, the butcher and his sidekick spotted likely herds of beef cattle grazing near the highways. Returning by night, Roden would cover his well-cut suit with a butcher's apron, work a steer or heifer out of the herd, and stun it with an airgun slug. Then, slaughtering and quartering the animal in less than half an hour, Roden would stow his kill in the trunk and back seat of the Mercedes and race back to Düsseldorf. There in the morning, he offered his customers fresh...
...prison is tucked in a barren bend of the Mississippi, looking toward fields of Louisiana sugar cane. Inside Angola's cyclone fences are the lifers-men serving sentences for rape and murder. Periodically a short man in rumpled suit and bow tie moves into the prison toolroom, lugging a tape recorder, a six-string guitar, a twelve-string guitar and a fiddle. Around him gather the prisoners-"Guitar" Welch, "Hogman" Maxey, Robert Pete Williams-to shout out their songs...