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...conditioning makers get 50 to 100 blast-furnace jobs, they will be as war-busy as a gunsmith. Already backlogs of the two leading conditioners (Carrier and York Ice Machinery) are 50 to 60% war work. This is something new. A few years ago, the biggest air-conditioning customers were theaters, honky-tonks, smart cafes and offices...
...invented by patient, reticent Eugene G. Reising, who started tinkering with firearms in boyhood and has been at it ever since. Gunsmith Reising has designed weapons for many of the big U. S. manufacturers, spent 16 years with Colt, holds some 60 patents and enough marksmanship medals to clutter his home at Hartford, Conn...
Reising worked out the details of his submachine gun at the H. & R. plant, under a contract giving H. & R. exclusive manufacturing rights. Painstaking Gunsmith Reising grumbled only when associates suggested changes that would complicate his gun. Then he groused: "Next thing they'll be wanting me to put a shaving...
Terrified, brooding, she resolved to free herself of him. The first time she aimed her old .38 revolver at him as he walked along the street, the gun wouldn't work. She took it to a gunsmith, had it fixed, waited for Coffman in a cafeteria. But the place was crowded. She was afraid someone else might get hit. Her third attempt was more successful. Even while she was talking, Coffman died in the hospital...