Word: firearms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...running a brass mill to make shell-casings during World War I. In 1931, when New Haven's Winchester Repeating Arms Co. went into receivership, John spotted a chance to supplement the Olin cartridge line by buying one of the world's biggest sporting-firearm plants for $8,000.000. Since he likes to hunt, John has since neatly combined business with pleasure. He holds some 20 basic cartridge patents (e.g., Western Cartridge's "Super X" long-range load for small arms...
...Dean's Office will issue permits to be filled out by all those wishing to keep weapons and ammunition in their possession. In addition to other information, the forms will require a statement of the purpose for which the firearm is to be kept, and will require the approval of the College police as well as the Dean's Office...
Haganah has denounced extremists of the Stern gang and the Irgun Zvai Leumi, which the British have long fought. Last week 31 young Jews (ages 19 to 28), members of the Irgun, were convicted of carrying firearms and sentenced to 15 years' imprisonment. (One, 19-year-old Benjamin Kaplan, was sentenced to life imprisonment for "discharging a firearm at His Majesty's forces.") In a turbulent three-day trial they shouted anti-British slogans from the dock, quoted Scripture (Let God arise, let His enemies be scattered . . .), chanted in unison "In blood and fire Judah fell; in blood...
Last week an official announcement said that Colonel General Ernst Udet, Quartermaster of the German Air Force, was killed "yesterday" (Nov. 17) while testing "a new type of firearm." The same day the Berlin radio attributed his death to an "airplane accident on Monday, the eleventh," said he died en route to a hospital. Reports from Vichy said he was a suicide. Many a U.S. airman and war veteran could recall Ernst Udet as a stumpy, laughing, likeable little man with a thirst for beer and information, a man of many questions who carefully avoided questioners. The last photograph...
...Army apparently expected smarter rookies to identify a pistol as a gun. According to Webster, a gun is "any portable firearm except a pistol or revolver...