Word: guns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...affair was nearing its end. Vera agreed meekly, even proposed to hunt up a buyer for the estate, which Praun now wanted to sell. The purchaser she provided was a Dr. Schmitz. Six days after arranging a meeting with Schmitz, Dr. Praun was found dead in his home, a gun under his hand. In the basement was the body of his housekeeper and occasional mistress...
...twelve men crouching behind the tank were cut down. A Venezuelan navy chaplain stepped into the street and walked from body to body calling "Hijo, hijo" (Son, son) until he found one badly wounded soldier still alive. He tried to lift the wounded man, and a burst of machine-gun fire spattered at his feet. The wounded man started crawling out of the line of fire, and the rebels finished...
...present for the ceremony: the other three triggermen all died in the aftermath at the hands of Trujillo's troops. The survivor, Council Member Antonio Imbert, 41, hid for six months in a friend's shuttered room, is still a presumed target for Trujillo revenge. Tommy gun-toting guards protect his home round-the-clock; he wears a .45 Colt at all times and keeps an M-1 rifle within easy reach...
...Loaded Gun. As 1962 began, the early warning signals began to be borne out. In January, to help prevent short-term investment funds from fleeing to foreign countries with higher interest rates, the Federal Reserve Board permitted U.S. commercial banks to raise their maximum rates on long-term savings deposits from 3% to 4%. The sharply competitive savings-and-loan associations countered by pushing their own rates as high as 4.8%, and as these figures loomed big in hard-sell bank advertising, many small investors obviously concluded that they could make as much money, and more safely, in savings accounts...
...Steel. It is a Wall Street axiom that the market always finds a ready reason for a selling wave-and this time the accepted one is Kennedy's offensive against steel. Says U.C.L.A. Economist Theodore Andersen: "Kennedy's criticism of steel triggered the market decline, but the gun had to be loaded-poor yields, better returns elsewhere, the lack of a need of a hedge against price inflation...