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...months later Wooldridge left Bell to join the fun. In short order, Ramo and Wooldridge developed an electronic fire-control system for the U.S. Air Force which was so good that it became standard equipment on every first-line interceptor. Another spectacular coup was the air-to-air Falcon guided missile to track and destroy enemy planes. When the Korean war sent orders surging through the industry, Hughes was transformed into an electronics giant with sales of $200 million annually...
...Black. They rented their first office and sat down to draw up a list of possible financial backers. The first name was Cleveland's Thompson Products, Inc., which already had its foot in the electronics door with a parts subcontract for Hughes's Falcon missile. As soon as Thompson heard from Ramo and Wooldridge. it told them to look no farther-just hurry to Cleveland to work out the financing details. Though Howard Hughes offered to help finance their new venture, it was too late...
Hammett's ideological stupidities for a time made him persona non grata with State Department libraries, but the old master of the "Black Mask" magazine wrote some of the finest non-political fairy tales before he vanished into obscurity. The Maltese Falcon is among his best...
There's a story about an elderly lady who went to see Hamlet for the first time. She liked it all right, except that it was full of quotations. The Maltese Falcon may seem like that after many years of imitations, but it's still one of the finest detective stories ever filmed...
Somehow, Dashiell Hammett picked up the reputation of an ultra-realist. He's far from that. The very picture of a golden falcon, encrusted with jewels, sought by a group of incredible characters who roam the world searching for it, is fairy tale material. The realism lies in Hammett's dialogue, his insistence upon accurate details. Hammett's detectives were never brilliant thinkers; Sam Spade is a tough monkey with a head as soft as the next guy's when it meets a flying blackjack or a loaded whiskey. Hammett's policemen aren't nice fellows; there is little romance...