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...Fingold replied over a public-address system: "If one of those guards dies, you all die in the electric chair." As news of the big break spread, the public and the press swarmed to Charlestown. Press helicopters whirled overhead, and photographers swung perilously above the prison wall on a crane. State troopers converged on Charlestown, and a Walker Bulldog tank lumbered up to the prison gates. The Rev. Edward Hartigan, the prison's Roman Catholic chaplain, was permitted to enter Cherry Hill to hear confessions and give Communion to some of the hostages. The prison physician was allowed...
TITANIUM PRODUCTION will be nearly tripled by 1956, largely because of a new $25 million plant just opened by Crane Co., makers of "everything and the kitchen sink." Crane expects to become the biggest U.S. titanium sponge producer by boosting output to 6,000 tons annually by 1956, some 2,000 tons more than total U.S. production last year. Expected Crane sales from the new plant: about $90 million annually...
Councilman Edward A. Crane maintained that "I know Cambridge," but admitted that he was puzzled by the State Department's action. "I'd have to know diplomatic rules to understand it, and I don't know the rules," he said. "Freedom to Travel is the Fifth Freedom. It is one of the factors contributing to the Great Conflict," he continued...
...Wilford G. Crane, a mere "10-watt amplifier bank clerk," once brilliantly undermined a wealthy "hifi bourgeois" with a gift of a single 78-r.p.m. disk. " 'It's Dajos Bela and Salon Orchestra, been looking for it for years. The way he plays these Hungarian Dances is beyond comparison. Finally found it on my last trip to Chicago. Some allowances you may have to make, but for 1933, don't you think the sound is spacious and resonant, eh?' Of course, Crane had actually found the disk in the attic . . . and had then rubbed dust...
Every day he climbed into his little cage 20 feet above the foundry floor, to guide his big, metal-toting crane. His co-workers rapped their hammers on stanchions to gain his attention, then motioned what they wanted him to do. The incoming relief operator scrawled necessary messages on the crane walls. At teatime, while the others horsed around, Hewitt sat alone in his crane...