Word: tracing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Treasury has a bureau of customs to prevent smuggling, a bureau of narcotics to combat dope peddlers. Its income tax intelligence unit ferrets out tax evaders. There are special agents in the Department of Agriculture to investigate violations of the Pure Food & Drugs Act, in the State Department to trace passport frauds, in the Interior Department to detect crimes committed on Indian reservations, in the Interstate Commerce Commission to nab freight rate rebaters and in the Federal Trade Commission to prevent unfair trade practices...
...three took off from Santiago for Buenos Aires, headed inland over the towering Andes. An hour after leaving port the ship's radio before going dead reported thick clouds and snow flurries. The plane never reached Buenos Aires. Heavy snowfalls blanketed the slopes, choked the canyons. No trace of the plane was found by dozens of search parties...
...there must flow something more than a trace of rodent blood, exalts some who are weak and throws mud at some who are strong. ... All this is published by a dying newspaper, recently purchased at auction by an Old Dealer-a cold-blooded reactionary-who was one of the principal guides along the road to the disaster of 1929 [TIME, March 5]." Few anonymous commentators on the political scene have received better advertising out of Washington...
...favorite fido has vanished, and it only requires a little Imagination to foresee the time when Chauncey Tinker may disappear from his suite in Harkness or Professor John Livingston Lowes is seen being whisked down Mount Auburn Street in a high-powered car which the police are unable to trace. These academic reprisals have practically unlimited potentialities...
...dead chief was either mummified by fire or buried with his wives and retainers, who prepared for the ordeal by getting as drunk as possible. But of the tons of treasure that went back to Spain, all was melted up or disappeared, and for four centuries no concrete trace of the Coclés came to light. About 30 years ago the Rio Grande de Coclé shifted its course, cut through an ancient Coclé burial ground. Five years ago some natives, poling up the river when the water was unusually low, spied something shining on the bank. They...