Word: armored
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...head is his elder brother, Sir Timothy Eden, Bart. No politician, tweedy Sir Timothy lives a squire's life in Durham County has written two books (The Tribulations of a Baronet, Five Dogs and Two More), likes to dash off oil paintings of friends in the family armor, himself amid the family books. Last week Londoners were getting their first look at the eighth Baronet's paintings in a solo show at Tooth's. Off-dashedest: portrait of Brother Anthony...
...well over half of Midvale's business-U. S. armament-does not swing with the ordinary cycles of depression, is bringing Baldwin Locomotive as close to the black as it can come when U. S. railroads are deep in the red. For Midvale is a specialist in pressing armor plate and forging heavy gun barrels from high-grade steel...
...come from its hedges against bad locomotive business. Of this, Mid-vale's $18,500,000 backlog adds up to the biggest single lump, 73%. Its presiding genius, handsome, abstemious Dr. Harry L. Frevert, lives from one ballistic test to the next, his only concern the race between armor-piercing shells and shellproof armor...
Armaments salesmen had a busy time last week, as cash-hungry nations peddled their military wares even to possible enemies and the other nations bought to cover chinks in their armor...
...British newsorgans about the strength of the new ships compared with the Nelson and the Rodney, most modern British battleships. The Prince of Wales and King George V are of an improved Nelson class, carry ten 14-inch and 16 5¼-inch guns, with a 14-inch armor belt and a 6¾-inch deck for protection against bombs and plunging fire. The Nelson and Rodney carry nine 16-inch guns, are the only ships in the Royal Navy carrying guns that size. But since 14-inch guns have been improved, power of fire of the new ships...