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...reminisced Hope, "are they quick on the trigger." Once, toward the end of an all-night show, he propagandized his soldier audience: "The United States needs you." Quick as a wink, a voice shot back: "We need the United States." Hope had no comeback to that...
...like a movie being made about Hitler. There is a British agent lurking around Berchtesgaden to kill the Fuhrer. Time & again he has a beautiful chance, but he never pulls the trigger. Why? Because he is never able to draw a bead on Hitler's heart...
Monner confines crushed dry ice in a special chamber of the gun. There it becomes part liquid, part gas, maintains a constant pressure. The trigger unlooses the gas by a valve, to shoot lead pellets through a regulation barrel. By regulating the length of time the valve is open, the penetration power of bullets can be controlled, Monner says, to a finer degree than with powder. One 5? loading is good for 2,000 shots...
...Mutual, with a million young listeners who have the cowboys-&-Indians habit, had to have a substitute for the Lone Ranger. Just in time, the forsaken network remembered Red Ryder, "six feet of redheaded trigger lightning," famed in boys' books, N.E.A.-syndicated comic strips, cinema serials, and, oddly enough, first serialized for radio by the Blue, 16 weeks ago on the Pacific Coast...
...Treasury, Aniline has the Department of Justice on its flanks. Aniline's five ex-officers are already under indictment for conspiracy under the Sherman Act; Justice is meanwhile continuing a study of who owns it. Part of Aniline's troubles (and the Treasury's nervous trigger finger) are due to a jurisdictional fight between the two departments for control of alien properties. That fight will go on until Franklin Roosevelt names an Alien Property Custodian and defines his thankless duties...