Word: inspectors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This book is called by its publishers the first "mature" novel by France's most famed detective-story writer, the creator of Inspector Maigret. Hot melodrama would be a better term for it. A young, naive Frenchman, Joseph Timar, goes out to work at the Equatorial African trading post of Libreville. At the town's only hotel, he stares at the grinning masks on the walls, cranks up a phonograph with a big, old-fashioned horn, drinks his first "peg" of whiskey and feels like a young rakehell. The feeling increases when Proprietress Adèle comes...
While the charges reverberated in Congress and throughout the country U.S. business wanted to know just one thing: how could it have happened? The facts were scanty enough. From Marion came news that the plant's superintendent and assistant chief inspector left on Dec. i. In Manhattan, Henry Donnelly Keresey denied that top company personnel had any knowledge that defective equipment had been sold to the Government. All that was certain was that U.S. business prestige and integrity had been dealt a blow such as it had not suffered since the McKesson & Robbins scandal or the defalcation of Richard...
...deliberately exaggerated the scope of recent changes. It "announced"' that 44-year-old General Hans Jeschonnek was now chief of the Luftwaffe General Staff, that Admiral Kurt Fricke had become chief of the Navy's General Staff. Actually, Jeschonnek has been chief of the Luftwaffe staff (under Inspector General Erhard Milch) since February 1939, and Admiral Otto Schnie-wind, whom Fricke allegedly replaced, has had another post (Fleet Chief) since 1941. Berlin, in short, was again manufacturing news for propaganda purposes...
...percher (textile for inspector) is getting hard to find and it took a month to train a new man to spot all the possible defects in cloth as it comes off the looms. Dooley and Dietz bet they could reduce the month to half a day. They had the management get samples of all possible defects. They sewed the samples into a strip 75 yards long and put it on rollers. Then they had the No. 1 inspector teach them what to look for. They analyzed and sent for a green man. After watching the roll...
...DAFFODIL AFFAIR - Michael Innes - Dodd, Mead ($2). For those who like sinister Chestertonian foolery, a completely fantastic and delightful story of the kidnapping of a young English girl with a dual personality, the theft of a learned horse ("Daffodil") and the disappearance of a Bloomsbury mansion. Inspector Appleby of Scotland Yard travels from England .to the jungles of South America for the amazing solution...