Word: truck
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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House Guest. Five minutes after shooting Kerr, Carpenter lurched to the second-floor apartment of 31-year-old Leonard Powell, a burly (6 ft. 3 in., 210 lbs.) truck driver. Tottering, dripping blood, "looking crazy," Carpenter forced his way in at gunpoint, ordered Powell and his wife, Stella, into the living room. Diane, 3, was asleep. Robert, 7, came in to say goodnight. Powell stared silently at Carpenter, nodded at his pistol. Gunman Carpenter put it out of sight until the boy went to his bed. Stella helped make bedsheet bandages, obediently fed the guest bananas and milk as Carpenter...
Informer's Tip. All England was alerted in the search for the recovery of the stolen arms. A few hours after the raid, three I.R.A. men were picked up but the truck they were driving contained only a portion of the 80,000 rounds of stolen ammunition. Scotland Yard got its second, break when an informer phoned from a tenement district in north London called the "Irish Channel'' because of the number of Irish immigrants resident there...
...Stan Delaplane, he avoids Irish whisky even straight (as it should be drunk), and will have no truck with Irish coffee. Says he: "I can't stand the stuff any more...
...John Harding, Chief of the Imperial General Staff, took personal charge of the chase; airfields and ports were guarded, roadblocks set up. Before learning of the alarm, a police patrol car stopped a suspicious-looking truck near the racecourse at Ascot, recaptured a load of guns and arrested three Irishmen. But the others got away...
...Deep Sleep. In Baltimore, Charles Brogdon, 57, was arrested for drunkenness after he went to sleep on a garbage heap, was covered with layers of crab shells and cabbage leaves, picked up by a mechanical scooper, dropped into a garbage truck, carted to the city dump, where, at long last, he woke...