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...suicide of Jan Masaryk is a great blow to those who hope that Czechoslovakia can continue to fuse elements from the East and the West...
...present, for the purposes of keeping tins brief, let me state just these points: 1) Monnett B. Davis, American Consul at Shanghai, fears the situation to be so dark that there exists in China a fuse leading to a huge bomb, and that this fuse is burning rapidly, and only very sensational action can cut it and prevent the bomb from blowing up in our faces; 2) Mr. Tsuyee Pel; Governor of the Central Bank (China's official currency), felt the situation so dark a year ago that he resigned his post to devote his time to planning...
Outside the wall, a young Hindu was seized. He had placed the crude bomb, then had stood well back waiting for the explosion. It did not come. As he moved closer to relight the fuse, the bomb went off. He was the only casualty...
Soon the money began to roll in. Meyers recommended the firm to Bell Aircraft, as being owned by "some friends"; Bell farmed out some minor jobs to Aviation Electric. The first was for fuse boxes. Lamarre figured that they could be profitably made for $11 each. Meyers upped that to $44.58 each, and got it. In five years, Aviation Electric collected $1,053,000 from the Bell account (and about $375,000 from others...
...building was materially damaged by the blast, and the furniture in several of the rooms was totally destroyed. Though the culprit responsible was never caught, startled College authorities surmised that some prankster, underestimating the potentialities of his boxful of gunpowder, had placed the bomb in the cellar, with its fuse, long enough to permit escape, running out the window...