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...kerosene fire bomb in December 1929. It failed. Twice again the plotters tried unsuccessfully to burn the wooden forms surrounding the concrete beams of a cell-block under construction. Fourth and successful attempt was made by filling a gravy bowl with oil and shavings, using two candles for a fuse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Quickest Way Out | 4/13/1931 | See Source »

Producing from his pocket a dynamite bomb, the soldier slid it gingerly into the 4-inch pipe, lowered it slowly until it reached what felt like the bottom of the pipe. At 4:25 a. m. he lit the fuse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Bomb for a Bathroom | 3/9/1931 | See Source »

...only be adding fuel to the fire but at least he will have given outlet to a desire which has been nurtured in the last two battered and darkened "El" cars in which he has ridden, a desire to pound the man who blows out the first fuse. He hopes he pounds the right one tonight if opportunity occurs...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 2/28/1931 | See Source »

...most exciting Russian experience during the revolution was sitting up at night for three months in the Embassy with a pistol in his hand guarding $5,000,000 worth of platinum to be smuggled into Britain to make fuse points for shells...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Artist Lintott | 10/27/1930 | See Source »

...emergency.* Post Office officials eyed with interest an experiment begun last week by National Air Transport and Railway Express Agency, with a fireproof and heat-proof cargo pouch developed by Johns-Manville Corp. This new bag was said to withstand a fire hot enough to melt sheet-metal and fuse pipes, without allowing even the sealing wax on letters inside to soften...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Pouch | 7/28/1930 | See Source »

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