Word: trippler
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...night last week, bushy-haired Hans Trippler, 31, a radio ham, made a hurried call to the Detroit police. Trippler had been dismantling a war surplus radio device (bought for $4.90*) to get parts for his transmitter. In the center of the.machine he came upon a 6-in. cylinder labeled "Destructor." The cylinder contained two dynamite caps and a tube of thermite. Trippler's little find fascinated Detroit cops, the Michigan state police, the War Assets Administration, the Military, Air Force and Naval Intelligence...
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