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...tools used in gunnery; know the standard, markings for ammunition. Understand the details and operation of directorscopes, periscopes and range finders. How to hoist and handle ammunition and all safety precautions involved in gunnery. Recognize all types of Naval pyrotechnics, and be able to make tests of smokeless powder. Understand the principles of fire control, the principles of electricity involved, and how to handle and adjust recoll, counter-recoll, gas ejectors, and firing mechanisms...
Dean David's reputation in big business has been outstanding. In 1927 he became associated with the William Ziegler interests in New York as president of the Royal Baking Powder Company. He became president of the American Maize Products Company in 1932 and has been a trustee of the Bowery Savings Bank in New York...
...guns consume half a pint of alcohol in every pound of powder. This year the U.S. needs an estimated 300,000,000 gallons of industrial ethyl alcohol-300% of its normal supply...
Rumors to the effect that there was an imminent liquor shortage were confirmed by a survey of provision stores throughout the Square. There is an acute gin shortage at present, and probably there will be no gin this summer, for the manufacture of smokeless gun powder is taking most of the alcohol produced for this brew. Although no rum shortage exists at present, it is expected soon...
...Hyacinthe Goujon, age six, who had ambitions to be a movie star, carried a tiny powder box, a small stick of rouge and chose her own perfume, "had quite astonishing ideas about her clothes and those of other 'women.' " She told Author Paul "without a flicker of her violet-blue eyes or a vulgar inflection of her well-trained voice, that she remained with Madame Absalom on Tuesday and Friday afternoons because her mother entertained her 'lover' on those days." ^ M. Corre, the conservative who ran the Epicerie Danton, scrimped so that his son could learn...