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...Dunlop, Sir Eric and Sir George swung the ax ruthlessly, began to diversify. They bought more wheel and rim plants, started making all kinds of rubber goods, from flooring to hot water bottles, and took over Charles Macintosh & Co., of raincoat fame. In 1928 Sir George hired his son, George Beharrell. who rose to a directorship...
...strongest excoriation ever directed at Senator McCarthy by one of his Republican Senate colleagues, Vermont's Ralph Edward Flanders last week accused him of 1) paralleling Adolf Hitler's brand of antiCommunism, 2) "setting church against church," 3) resuming "his ax-happy efforts to split" the Republican Party. 4) spreading "division and confusion wherever he goes," and 5) helping the Communists...
Suspense novels are meant to transport a man from his drab daily anxieties into a euphoric state of really high-class terror. Most authors in the suspense business used to accomplish this by piling up murder and mayhem, sin and skulduggery with all the subtlety of a meat-ax killer. That style is still widely practiced, but in recent years the suspense formula has become as elastic as a private eye's suspenders. It has often been stretched to include such weighty matters as character, group psychology, politics and sometimes even good writing. Thus a new category was created...
Practical Politics. In Elba, Ala., Farmer Dewey Adams broke into a polling place where votes cast in a local primary were being counted, chased away election officials with an ax, set fire to 95 ballots, after his arrest explained: "I didn't like the way the election was being...
Property Improvement. In Milwaukee, arrested for taking an ax to the electric power pole in front of his house, Albert Freiberg, 41, explained: "The pole mars the beauty of my property ... I told them right from the start that if it didn't look nice, I'd chop it down...