Word: townes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Salesman. In Milwaukee, haled into court for peddling toys without a license,, Alvin B. Wolff persuaded the judge to buy three mechanical penguins before he was ordered to get out of town...
...airborne missionary brought the feverish tale to Fairbanks: a trapper named Clifton Carrol had found gold nuggets "as big as peas" sticking to a fish wheel he was running in the Yukon River, 20 miles below Fort Yukon. The news licked through the town's old log cabins like fire, blazed in its neon-trimmed bars, spread to the big Army hangars at Ladd Field. It was carried across the Territory by radio. The Fishwheel Stampede...
...Kyaw Nyein, leader of the Socialists who are Burma's biggest political party, said: "We are so disrupted that 300 armed men can take any place except Rangoon itself. In the last two years there is scarcely a town in Burma which has not been seized at least once by rebels of some sort...
...injury compensation for the bullet wound he got from a demented bobby-soxer last June. The ball club argued that Eddie was only doing "his proper duty in public relations" when he went to the girl's hotel room in the belief that she was from his home town and needed help...
...release of the students was apparently arranged by Bernard A. Barr, a New York attorney, who asked to speak privately with the judge before the nine a.m. trial. Barr, in town for the weekend, spoke with Judge Arthur P. Stone for five minutes, following which the judge let all the students go with a payment of $5 costs...