Word: watchman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...abandoned it last spring, leaving behind millions of dollars' worth of equipment (trucks, tractors, jeeps, etc.). Camp Canol, at its peak a roaring movie set of a place populated with black-bearded men and an occasional ginghamed girl, is today a ghost town where a lonely watchman lives and only a single curl of smoke reaches skyward in the early twilight...
...fire lookout peering from Watchman Peak saw the calm blue water, 1,850 ft. below, emit a giant belch. A cloud of smoke - or dust-filled gas - billowed out of the deep water, rose high...
...reason that police could find. Several days later the stabbed body of a mechanic was found in a weed-grown field. Then, within 150 yards of the same spot, the body of Canadian Sergeant Hugh Blackwood Price was found; he, too, had been knifed. Next, a night watchman at a Windsor garage was brutally clubbed to death with a hammer, apparently by would-be robbers...
...swank Wolhurst Saddle Club, play-spot of Colorado's mining and cattle men, was raided last week. The invaders were a squad from the War Manpower Commission, who lined up all the employes for questioning, then ordered five-a cook, a watchman, and three attendants-to report to jobs in man-hungry war factories...
Fired. In Detroit, a watchman managed to get himself discharged-after his boss refused to fire him, the War Manpower Commission to release him-by setting fire to the warehouse he watched...