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...bootlegger, rumrunner, slot-machine magnate, betting commissioner, had spent ten months in the workhouse for illegal possession of a gun, had paid no income taxes on his lush rakeoffs for 13 years. He knew almost every big-name gangster of recent history: Al Capone, Lucky Luciano, Dutch Schultz, "Trigger Mike" Cappola. But he added: "I had bundles of real important friends of mine...
Less than three years ago, boyish, trigger-tempered Ted Nelson, 36, was an $11-a-day welder in San Francisco's Mare Island Navy Yard. His financial resources hardly bulged his vest pocket. Last week Ted Nelson, in his own spick-& -span new $330,000 San Leandro plant, received an Army-Navy E, topped off the celebration by announcing the opening of a second plant in Camden, NJ. in a few months. He had skyrocketed up on a Buck-Rogerish invention of his own, aptly dubbed the "rocket...
...dough" he quit, and set to work perfecting his gun in a shop behind his home at Vallejo. His simple solution: encase the flux in a small cap and fasten it to the end of the stud. When the stud was loaded into his 7-lb. gun and the trigger pulled, a spring snapped the stud against the steel plate, electrically welding it in a trice...
...jumped by a Zero at 100 feet," he said. "Then I used the hand lever to dump the flaps and I saw the Jap go by and pull up in a turn. I just held my trigger down until he blew...
...selfishness, she landed a job in 1934 with the crusading NRA, soon bossed it in New York. To settle labor disputes, the biggest part of her job, she developed a technique of mowing down disputants with a machine-gun delivery of tough, sensible talk, backed up with hair-trigger thinking and many a trick learned in Tammany politics. Sample: while temporarily serving as assistant WPA director for New York, she was hemmed in in her office one day by a "lie-down" strike of dissatisfied employes. She promptly phoned a hospital, reported that a number of people had fainted, asked...