Word: burners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Under the Moran plan, an ironclad schedule of graft rates was instituted-$10 to $35, depending on the size of an installation. Most of the city's 1,000-odd contractors were thus able to predict the bribe necessary to get a burner or tank certified for operation, and the more venal among them were able to pass the cost along to the customer in their early estimates...
...protect the honor of the fire department, no inspector was ever allowed to certify an unsafe burner or to wink at a leaky tank; contractors were forced to comply with the law before a bribe was accepted. If a contractor refused to pay, nobody threatened him; the collector simply waited for cold weather to jar him into paying...
...Open Burner. During World War II, Spilsbury became virtually an "isolated" man, a "living legend." In 1940 he was shaken up by a stroke, stunned by his son Peter's death. Students and young doctors spoke of his kindness and tact, but his work among the dead had taken him so far away from the living that he had few close friends. He lived alone in a hotel, where other residents tried occasionally to consult him about their ailments. He used to answer that "when they were dead he would cut them up and tell them what...
...filled out the last of the forms and put it in the mailbox. He informed his garage staff that he would not be seeing them over the New Year, and gave them their Christmas presents. That night he was found dead in his laboratory, beside an open Bunsen burner...
Better than most modern statesmen, Iran's Premier Mohammed Mossadegh knows the value of the childlike tantrum. Last week he sat at home "in korsi," i.e., on a mattress on the floor with his legs around a charcoal burner, and a blanket covering all of him but his head, and considered Iran's forthcoming general election. Gloomily, the aged Premier sent for Court Minister Hussein Ala and told him he was going to quit. Why? asked the flabbergasted...