Word: trail
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cops were smarter than the ones in Washington. After he had raped and throttled a white woman in The Bronx, he had taken a wrist watch from her. He gave the watch to a girl, who pawned it. The New York cops found it, found the girl, followed a trail back to Washington, last week arrested Jarvis Catoe...
Result: ten college girls and eight boys last week were hacking their way, with axes, brush hooks and mattocks, up a wooded mountainside, building a truck trail for fire fighting, clearing the way to a new mountain park where Wyoming Valley coal miners might go to picnic and play. The Valley was thoroughly mystified. So were some 40 other U.S. communities where 800 high-school and college students set up similar work camps this summer and paid $50 to $100 each for a chance to do constructive work...
Crosses mark the 120-mile desert trail from Sonoyta, Mexico, to San Luis, Ariz. Under the crosses are the corpses of wanderers who have died along its arid and terrible wastes. In Mexico it is called "El Camino del Diablo." Last week seven new crosses were put up on the Devil's Highway...
Last week the jurymen listened to the last argument, retired to ponder the long dim trail of the Wilson Stricklands, the conflicting claim of Allen Vince's clan...
...World War I, soldiers liked corny numbers-K-K-K-Katy; Roses of Picardy; There's a Long, Long Trail; etc. Today, according to Herbie Fields, they go for swing. Favorites: Please Take a Letter, Miss Jones; Green Eyes; Daddy; Let's Get Away From It All (sung "Let's Go A.W.O.L...