Word: tractor
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Collection Agency. In Amherst, N.Y., Norman Granville was arrested on a larceny charge when police discovered that he was building an addition to his home with 1 ) a tractor that had vanished from a tractor sales company, 2) $125 worth of plywood missing from a nearby home under construction, 3) two automobile wheels taken from an auto agency...
...history of heart trouble, so Surgeon Russell Simonetta confidently ordered an anesthetic : cyclopropane, after an intravenous injection of thiopental sodium. Within two hours, Dr. Simonetta, assisted by Dr. Henry Jacobs, had completed his surgery: cleaning and setting an elbow fractured when the patient was pinned under a tractor. Then, as he was about to be wheeled out, the boy's heart stopped...
...lands behind the Iron Curtain, membership in the Communist Party is meant to be a signal honor, a reward for extraordinary services on a tractor, special zeal on a lathe, or talent and diligence at street-corner rallies. But in Warsaw last week, the rulers of Communist Poland were grimly facing up to the fact that to all but a handful of their subjects party membership had come to be nothing but a chore. On a recent journey through the Polish countryside, a Western traveler found that in village after village party headquarters had vanished, closed up for lack...
...brother Cheney Griffin (TIME, April 14, 1958), have been indicted on 20 charges, among them embezzlement, theft, tax-record falsification, payroll padding, fraud, perjury and contempt. Georgia is out of pocket an estimated $10 million. Last week, the rare crime of embracery* was added. In Atlanta, Griffin-favored Tractor Dealer H. (for Herbert) Candler Jones, 45, was convicted for offering a $10,000 bribe to a grand-jury foreman...
Last week the tactless tractor dealer was sentenced to from one to three years in prison, and stood prepared for still more misery. He and Parks Director Brinson still face a six-count fraud indictment for their original overcharge to the state. But when they will come to trial is uncertain. Georgia's court dockets are getting more and more crowded, as the state wipes out the footprints left by the Marvin Griffin administration...