Word: towns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...quarreling bitterly. Daniels, suddenly fearful, railed against West's wild stupidity. But West was still snarling with braggadocio a few minutes later when they spotted a perfect getaway car-a big Dodge haulaway truck with four new Studebakers on its rear decks-parked in some trees near the town of Tiffin. The truck driver was asleep. West said: "I'll take care of him," and yanked out his pistol again...
...Shoot!" At 8:45 in the morning, six miles northeast of the town of Van Wert, West brought the big haulaway rig jolting and hissing to a stop. There was a police car across the highway. Van Wert County's grizzled Sheriff F. Roy Shaffer called: "You got any passengers in back?" West said: "None that I know...
...demonstration of the need for Western Union. On the Étoile du Nord, the international luxury express which makes a daily Paris-Brussels-Amsterdam run, they had to show their passports, railroad tickets or cash 16 times to 16 different officials in the three countries. At a Dutch border town the train was held up for an hour while inspectors made sure, the passengers had not bought too many U.S. cigarettes during the 20-minute stop at Brussels...
...would be only $5,000,000 (U.S. contribution: about $1,925,000), most of it for passing out public health know-how to less advanced members. Priority programs (with $1,038,000): malaria, tuberculosis, maternal and child health, venereal disease, nutrition and "environmental hygiene" (including tropical hygiene, housing and town planning...
...Line. In a little village beyond the Pindus range, the footsore and dog-tired Bigart found his man. Bigart met Markos and his foreign minister Roussos there. With a woman of the town as interpreter, they sat on the grass in a shady churchyard and talked...