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Last week, 58-year-old Leland Olds found these old words still echoing in the ears of Congress. In the years since, he had risen to a position of power. As the dominant member of the Federal Power Commission for the past ten years, he had toughened Government regulation of...
As he does every year about this time, bronzed, husky Herbert A. Nieman was grading pelts on his silver fox farm near Hermansville, Mich. But this year pelting was different. Nieman, the biggest U.S. breeder of silver foxes, was almost ready to pelt out of the fox-breeding business for...
¶ Electrocution. Doomed people kept for weeks in dirtiness were promised a shower bath. When they entered the cabin they stepped on a high-tension metal mat.
Stench of Death. Men began to come out of the numbed state in which, by instinct, they had performed their deeds, heroic or unheroic. The implacable Gehres gave them no rest. The hangar deck, where the worst fires had raged, was a nightmare of crushed planes, ruptured bulkheads, melted debris...
Tom Bost, who runs the Raleigh, N.C., State capital bureau for the Greensboro (N.C.) News has witnessed dozens & dozens of executions. He has seen the souls of convicted and condemned men take flight by electrocution and in the gas chamber. The North Carolina Governor's press conference the other...