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Slow Strangulation. He put a wallop into his delivery, clenched his left hand into a veiny fist as he warned that without U.S. military aid, free countries bordering on the Communist world would, under Communist pressures, "suffer a slow strangulation quite as fateful as sudden aggression." Going it alone without the mutual-security program, he said, the U.S. would need to step up its draft calls and spend billions more for arms...
...Mailed Fist...
Some of the Scranton union tactics were as simple as a tooth-busting fist. Others were more ingenious; e.g., threatening to douse the milk, eggs and butter of a nonunion dairy truck with kerosene, and pouring sugar into the gasoline tank of a steam roller on a highway construction job. (One of the goons gave his left-over sugar to a girl friend for household use.) Soft-spoken William E. Cochran, a construction foreman for a nonunion firm, told how the threats of union goons drove him to the Scranton city solicitor. James McNulty, for protection. McNulty, it turned...
...plunging their heads into a pail of water for long periods to make them talk. The second torture consisted in suspending them, their hands tied to their feet behind their backs, this time with their heads up, then placing beneath them a trestle [sawhorse], and swinging them with fist blows so that their sexual organs banged against the sharp crossbar of the trestle...
...strangers pushed their way in. "Did you do that article on the East End?" one asked. When Riggan replied that he had, one of the men whipped out a knife and held it to the newsman's stomach while the other smashed Riggan in the face with his fist. "If you work for TIME," the man muttered between punches, "you've got plenty of money. Where is it?" Riggan broke loose, made a dash for the door and shouted for help. The two visitors fled through the back door...