Word: trails
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...find breweries, Mr. Dengler advises trailing "trucks delivering wort* or other supplies. Various expedients may be used. Officers have used a pail of sand fastened to the axle. A hole in the bottom and plug with a string attached to the wheel completes the outfit which makes the sand trail when the truck starts. Others have taken speedometer readings to get an idea as to the distance covered. ... A man or boy on a bicycle can follow a truck without suspicion...
...northernmost Norway, in Barents Sea between Scandinavia and Spitsbergen, in Stockholm and in Oslo last week there was confusion?the confusion that results when the Press sets its pack upon the trail of a remote and elusive news story. The discovery on White Island. Spitsbergen, of the bodies of the Swedish explorer Salomon August Andree and his companions, lost on their poleward balloon flight of 1897, was the Story (TIME, Sept. 1). Its remoteness was heightened to a degree maddening to the Press by the fact that the bodies, relics and Andree's diary were aboard the little sealer Brattvaag...
...sawed off 15 ft. of exposed telephone trunk line cable for their sport. In Newark, N. J., Pasquale Bellott, n, James Dowd, n, and Pasquale Lordi, 13, wired two spikes to the tracks of the Central R. R. of New Jersey, dragged a piece of pork across their trail to prevent being followed by hounds, waited for a train to come by. A switch engine backed across the spikes, its crew removed them, preventing disastrous derailment of a Newark-New York express. In Louisville, Ky., small Charlie Bradshaw found a sack of paperhanger's paste powder, took it home...
...best but most dangerous road from New Orleans to the Midwest. Ol' Man Mississippi brought the cargoes down, but it was more than sail or paddle could do to get all the way upstream again. The gold went back in saddle bags over the narrow, bandit-infested trail stretching from Natchez, Miss, to Knoxville, Tenn...
...inheritance and his hard-earned money to Ann's husband, who sinks it in a wildcat gold mine. There is a murder, a bank robbery, Ann's husband deserts her, her father is arrested. The scene shifts to a Western desert: Pierre is hotfoot on the missing husband's trail. He finds him ... a gold mine (the great lode of Mother Mountain!) is discovered . . . there is not enough water for two . . . another murder. In the sheriff's office at Red Butte, Pierre, given up for dead (no man could get through Skeleton Sink alive) stumbles in to confront the sheriff...