Word: flader
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Dates: during 1952-1952
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Reporter Cahn was still not satisfied. He persuaded the Denver Post to hire him to investigate further. Cahn came across Herman Flader, a Denver grain man and industrialist who said he had dealings with Newton and Ge Bauer in 1949. For $34,000, said Flader. they sold him an interest in three "Doodlebugs," radio-size machines covered with dials and bulbs that lighted up when a Doodlebug detected a well...
Plutonium & Batteries. When Flader took delivery of the Doodlebugs, he got a warning never to open the case. Its plutonium-tipped antennas and delicate electronic mechanism might cause an explosion. Guided by the machine's lights, Flader sank $166,000 in oil land leases, but found...