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...industry. Ill health haunted him. Last week, tired and depressed at 58, he called his wife at a Red Cross meeting and asked her to come home at once. She found him dead on the floor of the bathroom, a bullet hole through the roof of his mouth, the pistol still clutched in his hand...
...heard that he had flunked his math. To make matters worse, Professor Modugno humiliated him by announcing that even the failing grade was higher than he deserved. Giuseppe walked home brooding over the injustice of it all. He pried open the locked chest that contained his father's pistol, put the 7.65 Browning automatic in his pocket and went back to his afternoon classes...
...Auto Salesman Max Hanson picked up a prospect for a demonstration ride in a new De Soto, telephoned home 8½ hours and 250 miles later to report that his customer had given the car an approving look, said, "Fine, we're going to Tulsa," unlimbered a pistol to emphasize his point, finally left Hanson with the automobile but minus...
...avalanche of cold water from the tanker's sea hoses. Sergeant Mangold finally made it aboard and stomped to the tanker's bridge. "I didn't know if they understood German," he explained afterward. "But there was one language they did understand." He jabbed a pistol into Mardin's back and snapped, "Stop the ship...
...sales in 1952. This year jet sales will total $250 million. Price also staked big sums on other new projects. Westinghouse succeeded in building a generator nearly twice as powerful as any built before, without any increase in size. Formerly generator coils, which revolve almost as fast as a pistol bullet travels, would burn out if the current were increased above 135,000 kw. But Westinghouse, using hollow coils cooled by hydrogen gas, was able to almost double the capacity without increasing the size. (TVA is now spending $9,500,000 for two of these 250,000-kw. giants...