Word: springfields
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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ALFRED J. DEHEN Springfield...
...preparatory hum spread through the U. S. last week. Army arsenals at Rock Island, 111., Augusta, Ga., Benicia, Calif., Frankford, Pa., Dover, N. J., Metuchen, N. J.; San Antonio, Tex., Springfield, Mass., Watertown, Mass., Watervliet, N. Y., Edgewood, Md., were put on a six-day week. Two shipbuilders (Bath Iron Works Corp., Federal Shipbuilding & Dry-dock Co.) bid-o build destroyers in 18 months instead A 24. The Du Fonts ar ranged to build and operate a big powder plant financed by the French and British (see p. 79). Chrysler Corp. was ready to produce bomb fuses, shell forgings...
...forum opened when an unreconstructed Springfield Republican, William Bell Chilton, told a hostile audience: "I wouldn't vote for anybody for a third term, with the exception of Jesus Christ." Mrs. G. A. Crotts, a Nashville housewife, answered sharply: "I want Roosevelt for a third term, a fourth term or as many terms as he wants." Then she ran the gamut of Presidential possibilities, called Dewey "a little two-for-a-nickel lawyer," Taft "the perpetual whiner of the Senate and No. 1 bore," Willkie "head of the Southern Power Corporation when the companies robbed the few people able...
...Rutgers' varsity eight: the second annual Dad Vail Regatta, No. 1 rowing event for minor-league college crews; outrowing eight other eights over the Henley distance (one mile and five-sixteenths); on the Connecticut River at Springfield, Mass. Marietta finished second, Springfield third. ∧Long-swatting little Ben Hogan of Fort Worth, Tex.: the third annual Goodall Round Robin golf tournament-in which each of 15 invited pros scores plus one for every hole he wins, minus one for every hole he loses to each of the other 14 with a score of plus 23; over Long Island...
...year (1939) of Garand tests, the Army discovered a de fect so serious that a new barrel had to be designed. As of last Feb. 16, the Army had on hand 28,088 Garands with the faulty barrel. It is still getting them (200 a day from its own Springfield Arsenal), will have 35,000 to 40,000 defective Garands in service before tools are in stalled to make the corrected barrel...