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All My Sons

            
             - This is the story of two families who have been neighbours for a long time. The first family is the Kellers; Mr Joe Keller, his wife Kate and their two sons Larry and Chris. The neighbouring family is the Deevers; Steve Deever, his wife, his son George and his daughter Ann.
             The children used to play and study together when they were young. When they grew up Larry fell in love with Ann.
             Joe Keller owned a small factory that manufactured many spare parts and Steve was working for him. During the war the factory manufactured cylinder heads for the Air Force planes (P40s). One day they shipped some cracked (bad) heads to the Army which resulted in the crash of twenty-one planes and the death of their pilots. That was a great scandal. Both Joe and Steve were arrested and brought up to trial for that terrible crime.
             Joe was clever enough to get off with it. He proved to the court that he had nothing to do with the shipped those bad cylinders. Steve swore that he shipped them because Keller told him so on the phone They were in urgent need of the heads, and that he only had bad ones at that time. He phoned Joe and asked him to come to deal with that problem, but Joe told him on the phone to cover up the cracks and ship them to the army saying that those cylinders would be all right. But Joe denied that telephone call and said that on that day he was sick with flu, and expressed his sorrow that if he had been there that terrible accident would not have happened. As a result Steve was convicted and sent to jail while Joe was acquitted as there was no evidence against him. And in a very short time Joe owned one of the biggest shops (factories) in town and became a respected business man.
             The scandal was a great shock to both families. During that time Chris, George and Larry were serving in the army.they had to move to New York. The Kellers did not leave town, to the contrary Joe became a distinguished business man.


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