Word: armorers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...With 20th century technology at their command, U.S. fighting men have nearly succeeded in achieving the degree of invulnerability enjoyed by 14th century knights. Armored vests capable of deflecting almost any small missile except high velocity bullets have saved the lives of hundreds of G.I.s and marines in Korea. Last week both the Army and Marine Corps announced the development of another protective garment-armored shorts. Cut like boxers' shorts and constructed of twelve layers of laminated nylon duck encased in a plastic and nylon fabric, the Army's "lower torso armor" will weigh 4 lbs. (Weight...
...piece, the monumental hoard of art and knickknacks collected by the late William Randolph Hearst is going under the auctioneer's hammer. The latest group, some 300 pieces of old arms and armor, sold in Manhattan last week for a total of $40,810. The sale included a 16th century burgonet (helmet with cheek-pieces), the highest priced item, which went to a private collector for $3,200, and a 1560 wheel-lock Italian arquebus which the Metropolitan Museum of Art bought...
...dusk all had passed the ambush point except the heavy armor of the rear guard, when suddenly a new wave of Reds jumped the road, recapturing the ambush area and cutting off the rear guard. Bucking their way through in the darkness, the tanks reached the center of the ambush area, with hundreds of suicidal Viet Minh swarming aboard with potato-masher stick grenades and plastic explosive charges. Some Viet Minh threw themselves under the grinding treads with armfuls of explosives. Six armored halftracks were destroyed and their crews slaughtered...
...surgeon general of the U.S. Navy combines two professions: he is both an officer and a doctor. Last week Rear Admiral Lamont Pugh laid aside his delicate medical instruments, loaded his heaviest rifles with armor-piercing shells and fired a broadside at doctors & dentists who try to duck service in the armed forces...
...beskirted ladies skip rope, flashing a daring inch of petticoat. In another decade, bicycling was the craze, as Author Jensen illustrates, though the Boston Women's Rescue League warned that 30% of all fallen women had at some time been bicycle riders. After a "long night in armor," a 1910 gym picture shows a bevy of union-suited beauties straining at pushups, pulleys and punching bags. In another 1910 photograph, Julia Ward Howe, at the age of 91, is being wheeled to a suffrage drive to recite her Battle Hymn of the Republic. Behind her stands Socialite...