Word: serial killing
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Dates: during 1943-1943
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...guarded by a special alarm system to warn the welders when Packard officials and air-force inspectors visited the plant. When suspicious Packard officials rejected $130,000 worth of castings and ordered them scrapped-after repeated warnings to National Bronze that defective parts would kill U.S. flyers-the company patched up the parts, changed the serial numbers and shipped them back to Packard as new parts. Some of the castings were so weak they fell apart when touched. The trial brought out greed as the reason for the plot: National Bronze got $270 a Ib. for accepted castings v. only...