Word: jailings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Boom. In Albany, Governor Dewey upped the New York State allowance for maintenance of tramps in jail from...
Triangle. In Genoa, Italy, Vasco Cavallero got a year in jail for bigamy, despite the impassioned pleas of his two wives, who protested that they were a "perfect family," living cosily together and minding their own business until the law stuck its nose...
...came from Moscow: the gold was phony! Investigation showed that Germans (among them many D.P.s) had operated an illegal smelter in Berlin, casting a base alloy with a thin gold coating into small "gold" bricks. This week, the Russian assayers who had permitted themselves to be fooled were in jail...
...class in school, got a job making Borsalino hats (which are to Stetsons what Isotta Fraschinis are to Oldsmobiles); during the depression he lived squalidly in a tiny apartment with his wife, a seamstress. He was arrested for Communist agitation and when he got out of jail after five years, things were even worse ("We lived on boiled milk and boiled potatoes...
...quickly kills. Introduced to. the U.S. in 1931 by a German named Adolf Schickert, the abortion paste ballooned into a $300,000 business, enough to produce some 240,000 abortions (and nobody knows how many deaths) a year, before Food & Drug sent Schickert and four other paste producers to jail. That seemed to have ended the paste racket; reports of deaths due to the paste promptly declined. But last month Food & Drug's watchful inspectors got word. of a new paste menace, worriedly set out to trace the new outbreak to its source...