Bread-line
a group of needy persons waiting in line for free food to be distributed by a government agency or charitable organization.
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Dave Ranney Dave Ranney
The Root of Evil Thomas Dixon
Garrison’s Finish W. B. M. Ferguson
Sudden Jim Clarence Budington Kelland
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