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...restoration of capital punishment. Besides, every execution device in Britain has been dismantled, with the sole exception of the gallows at Wands-worth Prison. It is kept in readiness to dispatch the few offenders still liable to the death sentence-traitors, and those guilty of the arcane crimes of arson in Her Majesty's dockyards and piracy with violence...
Suspicion of Arson. By week's end 61 bodies had been recovered, many burned beyond identification. But the toll could reach more than 300, since 250 were still missing. It was, by any count, Brussels' worst fire and the most devastating one worldwide since 323 persons perished in a circus blaze in Brazil in 1961. Brussels Mayor Lucien Cooremans said that it would take a month or so to comb through the tangled debris, which still smoldered days later. Store officials estimated the property loss at $23 million...
Astoundingly, the answer is yes. In 1929, New York City had close to 29,000 taxis. But the Depression put many of them out of business, and competition for passengers among those remaining led to such ferociovis cab wars -with arson and shooting-that the city in 1937 severely limited the number to prevent even more violence. New York now has only 11,772 licensed taxis to serve almost 1,000,000 passengers a day. Similar hold-downs afflict people in Boston, Philadelphia, Miami and San Francisco...
...called The Camera Eye-poetically subjective inlays in the raw plain-deal prose, where the novelist had his metrical fling out of earshot of his characters. Another invention was the impressionist profile of contemporary figures, of which the most famous had the echoing refrain: "Wars, machine-gun fire and arson-good growing weather for the House of Morgan." These sketches-of Henry Ford and Big Bill Haywood the Wobbly leader, of Rudolph Valentino and Isadora Duncan-were brilliant in themselves and had great influence on the style of journalism...
Just Collectors. Also in custody were 19 Minutemen, charged with such offenses as conspiracy to commit arson, illegal possession of weapons, incitement to riot and unlawful assembly. At their arraignment, attorneys suggested that the suspects were really no more than innocent "gun collectors." But the district attorney's men said they knew better. Agents from B.O.S.S., New York City's Bureau of Special Services, had infiltrated the organization and clocked the Minutemen's every move for nearly a year. They reported that the would-be guerrillas had crashed the weekend maneuvers of reserve military units to gain...