Word: trailing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last year St. Clair McKelway wrote a series of articles for the "New Yorker" about an elusive counterfeiter. Known as "Mr. 880" from the number of his Treasury Department file, this counterfeiter left a trail of disarmingly crude one-dollar bills across four boroughs of New York and the Staten Island Ferry, and led the Secret Service the longest chase in its history...
...height also makes the station harder for staffers to reach. In winter snowshoes and skis are usually necessary for the steep, uphill trail. State and Metropolitan District policemen, who have their radio stations next door also have this problem. During the winter of 1947-8 no one could drive up for three weeks...
Then, in 1947, Bill Drury got too energetic in his hunt for the killers of Racing Wire Czar James Ragen. It was taken for granted that The Outfit got Drury fired because he was getting too hot on the trail of a most delicate matter: complete control of Chicago's fabulously rich bookie business...
Saddle Tramp (Universal-International) follows lamely in the footsteps of comedies that spoof the western (The Paleface, A Ticket to Tomahawk), and gives up the trail too soon for its own good...
Attached for President Truman's perusal was the required Budget Bureau summary of the bill and the fact behind it. Madison was a California farmer who had rented to the Forest Service a stallion known as Man of War Jr. One night on the trail, Man of War Jr. felt an urge. He chewed through his tether and ran off to find a mate. It was his last run, for he got tangled in the rope trailing from his neck and died of strangulation. Farmer Madison billed the Forest Service...