Word: armored
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...most extraordinary and most typically British characters that Alice met on the other side of the looking glass was the White Knight. To be prepared for "everything" he carried not only tin armor and a helmet, but also a sandwich box, a mousetrap, fire-irons, carrots, a beehive; and his horse was equipped with anti-sharkbite anklets. Great Britain was last week compared to the White Knight by more than one Briton, and the parallel was just...
General Leone got the bright idea of dressing a raiding party in suits of armor-"They admit of the most daring exploits in broad daylight," beamed the general, confiding that the Austrians had spent enormous sums trying to steal the patent on them. Eighteen volunteers, looking like medieval knights, heaved themselves over the parapet, clanked toward the enemy. The general turned to the colonel and said gravely, "The Romans owed their victories to their cuirasses." Two Austrian machine guns punctuated his remark. As he peered over the parapet, the last of the 18 armored Italians toppled over like tin cans...
...acre swamp with no visible outlet. On hands and knees, Charles Miller gazed down into its reeds. A quarter mile away something moved. Charles Miller's blood froze. Lashing across the swamp was a dinosaur. It was 35 feet long, a yellowish color, with scales laid on like armor plate, a bony-flanged head, and snappin-turtle beak. Half blinded by cold sweat, Charles Miller pressed the release on his camera.* The dinosaur reared up on its hind legs, its small forelegs dangling, hissed roaringly, shot its snaky neck in his direction and slithered out of sight. Concluding that...
...orders will not help materially to up the rate of production in the steel industry. Until the ways are free to begin building, steel will not be wanted. When it is wanted-about 50,000 tons of plain steel and 34,000 tons of armor plate for the 24 ships-it will be only a drop in the ocean. As a market for steel, shipbuilding is a bottleneck due to limited capacity. In 1938, operating at the highest rate since the War, the industry was able to use slightly over 300,000 tons of steel, about...
...Navy was authorized to open negotiations with the No. 1 U. S. shipbuilder, No. 2 steel unit-Bethlehem Steel Corp.-to buy its West Coast shipyard, helping to free Bethlehem to concentrate on expanding its East Coast shipbuilding capacity hard by its East Coast steel and armor plate shops. Meanwhile Army & Navy men are exploring possibilities of organizing a West Coast steel industry to serve local shipyards...