Word: cl
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...corsets. Hopping into missiles, Fairchild soon found itself expanding its engine as well as its airframe business. The J83 engine soon proved so promising for light jet aircraft that General Dynamics' Canadian subsidiary, Canadair Ltd., chose it as the power plant for the prototype of its new CL-41 trainer, and Lockheed will also use it for its Jet-Star executive transport. Fairchild added half a dozen other lines, from electronic guidance systems for missiles to an aluminum bridge much like a plane wing, in hopes of winning a slice of the highway-building program. While the Government puts...
Recently, chatting with his concierge, Clé grumbled that his business was doing poorly, that he was fed up with life and kept going because of his old mother, who lived in the country. Last month a telegram informed him that his mother had died. Ten days later, Clé disappeared as completely as had Félicie...
Last week tenants complained of a persistent stench coming from the Clé apartment. Policemen broke down the door. Charles Clé lay on the couch, his wrists slashed, a bullet in his temple. All the furniture was broken, picture frames and glassware smashed on the floor. In the bathroom, police found the tub covered with plywood boards and a mattress. In it was the decomposing body of Félicie Crippa, eleven months dead of head wounds. Instead of Lysol, Clé had poured several gallons of Eau de Cologne into the water...
Police found a letter to the commissioner of police. Clé was anxious that the commissioner understand why he had wrecked his apartment. He had not acted from remorse, sadism or simple vandalism, wrote Clé, but "because I do not want to leave anything to our French government, which is leading the nation to its ruin. . . I believe it is better to die quickly, rather than suffer slow death in the chaos of modern democracy...
...murder of his mistress, Clé said not a word...