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...dangerous a job as tinkering with the mechanism of a faulty bomb. For 88 years, California ran its fortress-like San Quentin penitentiary by looking the other way and hoping for the best. From the days when it was still a barnacled hulk floating off San Quentin Point, tough "con-bosses" all but ran the prison. Money bought liquor, women and narcotics, and the place was incredibly mismanaged. Some inmates made a small fortune during the '30s by turning out counterfeit bills in the prison photoengraving shop. But ordinary convicts were flogged or water-tortured for the slightest infraction...
...this man is dead or my watch has stopped"), bogus Emperor of France?using such aliases as J. Cheever Loophole, Captain Spaulding, Professor Wagstaff, Detective Sam Grunion, Otis. B. Driftwood, Wolf J. Flywheel and Napoleon. Whatever the alias or whatever the rascality, he was always the same rascal, the con man who made no bones about the disdain he felt for the suckers he was trimming...
Extracting copper from such low-grade ore is enormously expensive. To open his Nevada mine, "Con" Kelley had to buy a sulphur mine 60 miles away, to get sulphuric acid needed for the concentrating process. Because exploration is even more expensive, Kelley and others are now going through old diggings to get out the high-cost ore that had been bypassed. Anaconda alone is spending $27 million to tap 130 million tons of such ore in its famed Butte, Mont, properties and another $100 million to process low-grade ore in Chile...
...inclusion of an Axis casualty in the World War II plaque. The inscription under the category of the Divinity School lists two names, one of which reads "Adolf Sannwald (Enemy Casualty)." Apparently, when the Corporation approved the list of names, Sannwald's was not discussed individually, either pro or con...