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Word: bolivars (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1950
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...lucky Sergeant John Frankey and his quiet little buddy Corporal Paul Abel were supply noncoms in C Company of the 796th M.P. Battalion. Frankey, 29, came from Brockton, Mass., had been a lifeguard, and had gone to the University of Wisconsin for two years. Abel was 26, from Bolivar, Mo. A onetime farmhand, he had only been through grammar school, but he knew how to do things in the city: he had once helped Frankey steal a $1,300 radio transmitter from an M-8 U.S. armored car. When they first tried to sell their loot, black-marketeers started them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUSTRIA: Frankey, Abel & the Torpedo | 2/20/1950 | See Source »

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