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...guarantee to stop the "labor trouble," i.e., collective-bargaining demands, the firms were having with a United Electrical Workers local. Ahead of Dio loomed further trials on charges of 1) extorting $11,500 from two New York City merchants,, 2) evading federal income taxes, and 3) plotting the 1956 acid-blinding of Manhattan Labor Columnist Victor Riesel...
...small crowds, was in town to stir up as much mischief as he could. Parents of six of the 13 Negro children got threatening phone calls. One caller told a mother that her six-year-old daughter would be strung up by her toes. Someone told another mother that acid would be hurled at her son. Said a woman who identified herself as a "Ku Kluxer": "You'd better not send your child to a white school, because we'll beat her to death and bomb your house...
...Korn, 43, for years a producer of unexceptional wines from a small hillside plot, but a vintner with a bright idea of how to make every year a vintage year. Hiring a chemist, he concocted a mixture of two parts grape juice, eight parts water, plus dashes of citric acid, tartaric acid, potash and glycerin. In two years Korn made between 1,500,000 and 4,000,000 quarts. Germans sipped it with satisfaction, noted nothing unusual; neither did the government controllers, who checked it periodically for bouquet and chemical content...
...socially impeccable Mrs. Skakel had told the Advocate about the Becks, invited the paper to take pictures, and had helped the Advocate's free-lance photographer set up the shot of the guest she introduced as Dave Jr. (father had supposedly left), the Advocate cut loose with an acid apology on Page One. In an open letter to the Becks, Managing Editor E. R. McCullough explained: "Frankly, we believed the Skakels on Saturday night and Monday morning, and we suppose we've got to go along with their latest story . . . If you have any thoughts on adult delinquency...
...countries, Snia Viscosa was worth $500 million, had boosted production to a record high; sales totaled $120 million, profits $8,000,000. Last week the company added still another profitable asset: a $5,000,000 chemical plant at Varedo, in northern Italy, to produce 45,000 tons of sulphuric acid annually for Painter Marinotti's booming sideline...