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...plastic explosive was planted in the earpiece of a telephone and set to explode at the sound of A on a tuning fork. After planting the device, the hunter called his victim, then twanged the fork. Boom...
...Fork-Tailed Devil. The Electra 10 turned Lockheed into a better-thangoing concern, and World War II converted it into a giant. Its P-38 Lightning, the only U.S. fighter in continuous service throughout World War II, was dubbed by Luftwaffe pilots "der gabel-schwanz Teufel"-"the fork-tailed devil." Making Hudsons for the British before the U.S. entered World War II, Lockheed ran into the U.S. Neutrality Act, which forbade either U.S. or British citizens to ship or fly the planes from the U.S. to Britain. Court Gross helped devise a stratagem. Lockheed bought a wheat farm...
...Michael J. Quill, 60, an intransigent, fork-tongued man with a shanty Irish brogue who is founder and president of the Transport Workers Union and a raving Anglophobe who fought in the Irish Revolutionary Army. He had a meager childhood on a County Kerry farm, immigrated to the U.S. in 1926, sold religious pictures in a Pennsylvania coal-mining town, later became a ditchdigger and a change maker in the New York subway system. Quill was a loyal Communist-liner when he founded the T.W.U. in 1934, once said, "I'd rather be called...
That last bitter issue was finally ironed out last week. Kohler agreed to pay some 1,400 former strikers a fat Christmas gift of $3,000,000 in back wages. The company will also fork over $1.5 million in pension-fund contributions. The settlement, tied to a new one-year contract, was sealed by U.A.W. Secretary-Treasurer Emil Mazey and Kohler Vice President Lyman C. Conger with a handshake. Despite the most extensive boycott campaign ever mounted by organized labor, the effect of the long dispute on the company was hardly shattering; Kohler today is still a leader...
Early the next morning-Labor Day -near Ash Fork, Ariz., Boggs killed both men with Flory's revolver and stole $29 and the Simca. Re-enacting the crime for Arizona authorities last week, Boggs said he tied both victims' hands and made them sit down on the ground. "At the time I had no real plans for shooting them," he said, "It just came into my head." Boggs shot Johnson once and Willis twice but, he said, Johnson got up and began running, yelling "Don't! Don't! Dont!" Boggs pursued...