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...impact switch has been developed by Walter Kidde & Co. which automatically releases several pounds of compressed carbon dioxide gas into the engine compartment of a plane if it crashes, thus helps to put out fire even if the pilot is incapacitated. An adjustable trigger device prevents release of the gas by twists in flying, bumps in landing...
Through the dark corridors to his office the Admiral strode briskly. He approached the anteroom where visitors waited for interviews. The door opened; a young man stepped into the hall. He aimed a revolver at the Admiral's face and pressed the trigger. The Admiral staggered, lunged forward, blood spurting from his mouth. A second shot. He fell, and lay still...
...British cargo ships. Probably scores of others were doomed by code messages on high-powered radio sets and interchange of information through Spanish ships. Subsequent developments were expected to give chapter & verse on a continental espionage system of Nazis, Fascists and Japanese operating in Buenos Aires with all the trigger men expelled from Brazil and Chile...
Publisher Alvin Wiehle of the Washington Herald-Telegram writes with brutal candor. When a recent District of Columbia practice blackout flopped, Publisher Wiehle combed the District's hair with a sneering editorial headline: "A blackout? Nuts! A whiteout!" During the recent scrap drive he pressed his editorial trigger again: "The people must conserve, conserve, conserve, but the Government is free to waste what it pleases. Attached to the wall of the public rest station at Dupont Circle are two iron trellises ... at least 40 lb. of good scrap. Why isn't something done?" He also runs pointed society...
...another drawing a wife is lounging on a chaise longue in her boudoir. She has mounted a shotgun on the tops of two chairs, run a cord from the trigger to the door so that whoever opens the door will shoot himself. Says the wife: "It's not locked, Honey...