Word: ripper
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Scotland Yard's famed C.I.D. (Criminal Investigation Department), who solved many of Britain's most famous crimes during his long (1887-1929) service; in London. No theorizing Hercule Poirot, Wensley served a rough & tumble apprenticeship in London's thug-infested East End during the Jack the Ripper era, wrote about it all in Forty Years of Scotland Yard...
There is scarcely a man alive who has not heard tales of the days when men were men, when Cecil Rhodes was carving an empire and Jack the Ripper worked on a smaller scales. There is also scarcely a man alive who believes any of it without something in the way of proof. With that as background, here is the story of the great trained moose of Shawinigan Falls, a noted boast of balled and legend, and an animal which so far as we can judge, actually existed...
...Army colonel, was hearing from some other interested parties. Said she last week to our Birmingham correspondent: "After the story appeared in TIME we were deluged with telegrams, orders and letters. I had to hire two stenographers to answer them. There were literally trunksful of letters inquiring about the ripper. The money sent to us in envelopes was amazing, but it was all sent back because we were not in production at the time. There were also phone calls and cables from Italy, South America, Japan, Alaska, Germany, and other countries. It was all the more exciting to us because...
...present the Gilman Engineering and Manufacturing Corp. of Janesville, Wis., a subsidiary of the Parker Pen Co., which has been granted exclusive rights to manufacture the ripper, is working to fill orders for millions (the exact figure is a trade secret) of the needles. According to Mrs. Lawrence, additional orders are coming in daily from all over the world...
Abraham & Straus put the ripper on the market in the metropolitan area and, at their invitation, Mrs. Lawrence came to New York City a few weeks ago to demonstrate her invention. She is an alert, attractive, grey-haired grandmother who shoots golf in the 80s and sings in her church choir. A native of Hartwell, Mo. she went to school and to business college in Fort Scott, Kans., attended a dressmaking school in Chicago, and was married in 1916. Her only child, a daughter, is married and has three children...