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...said: "We were doing a little maneuver with some Lancashire Fusiliers. The Fusiliers passed us a tree trunk's breadth away. There were 20 of us, and they never saw us. If we had been Mau Mau!" He made a crude gesture with a calloused hand across his throat...
...Rucks' six-year-old son walked among the huts, they didn't say, 'Little bwana, tonight, when you are sleeping, after we have killed your father and mother, we will break down the door of your room, while you scream and scream, and then cut your throat...
...Throat Competition...
Although they did a business of over 153 billion dollars in 1952, retailers, faced with half the costs of overall distribution and cut throat competition from within their ranks, only averaged a profit of one to three cents on the dollar. The problem of reducing distribution costs will fall on the coming generation of retailers to solve before the industry can offer high returns to its stockholders, and establish itself as a blue-chip investment field...
Razor & Rope. One morning last week the maid got no reply when she knocked at the door of Room 223. Police broke it down. They found the room a shambles, the bedclothes scattered. Some time in the night, Pierre Delaitre had strangled Eileen and slashed her throat with a razor. She died on the Louis XIV bed. Pierre had cut his own throat, but not deeply enough. Bleeding heavily, he had scribbled an incoherent note telling of his anguish at losing the woman he could not live without, then tied one end of a 9-ft. rope around his neck...