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...good living as an economic adviser to private 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...
...banged. Artillery shells moaned overhead and exploded in "enemy" territory. Amid the excitement Edgar had an odd impulse. He aimed his M1 rifle at the back of 2nd Lieut. Richard Davenport, 22, the officer commanding his platoon. Then he pulled the trigger. The officer toppled over dead with a bullet through his heart...
...first, officers assumed that Davenport had been struck by a fragment from some freakish artillery burst. Then an autopsy physician found that he had been killed by a rifle bullet, and officers decided that Lieut. Davenport had been shot by a soldier with a grudge. The lieutenant had never disciplined Edgar or had any trouble with him, and the investigators did not pay him any special attention...
...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...
...warning light flashing rhythmically. He slowed. Then he saw something even stranger: a weak blink of light on the ground near the car. He stopped, got out. A white-faced state trooper was sprawled there in the darkness, working a flashlight button with his thumb, and dying from a bullet wound in his stomach...