Word: armstrongs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Four biggest arms makers are England's Vickers-Armstrong, France's Schneider-Creusot, Germany's Krupp, Czechoslovakia's Skoda. Their interlocking connections (which Authors Engelbrecht & Hanighen show in charts) are almost incredibly complex; the only real competitor any of them has is peace. Says Author Seldes: "It is a recurrent paradox of the international gun trade that nations arm their enemies." During the War German scrap iron at the rate of 150,000 tons a month was shipped into France, via Switzerland. French bauxite (aluminum) found its way into the construction of German submarines; German barbed...
...comparatively innocent. Biggest U. S. ammunition maker is Du Pont, whose business is so diversified that only 2% of it in the last two years has been military products. "There is no single armament company in the U. S. comparable to the Schneider group in France or Vickers-Armstrong in England." As far as deliberately fomenting breaches of the peace is concerned, U. S. arms makers might echo Bannerman & Sons' conscious innocence: "No firearms are ever sold in our store to any minor. We will not sell weapons to anyone who we think would endanger the public safety." Machine...
Singles: Fuld (H) defeated Gordon 6-3, 8-6; Dorson (H) defeated Armstrong 6-4, 6-1; Wight (M) defeated William Minot, Jr. 6-3, 6-0, 6-3; Bolton (M) defeated Lawrence Ross 6-4, 3-6, 6-3; Anderson Page (H) defeated Fiske 75, 6-3; Elwood Henneman (H) defeated Masters...
Doubles: Gordon and Wight (M) defeated Fuld and Dorson 4-6, 6-1, 6-0; Robert C. Holecombo and Thomas Sherwin (H) defeated Bolton and Marstons 6-2, 6-1; Page and Pell (H) defeated Fuller and Armstrong...
...Sweet Adeline" (1903). Harry Armstrong wrote the music in Somerville, Mass., when he and three other Somerville boys were annoying the townsfolk by singing quartets on the gaslit street corners. In New York some years later Armstrong found a lyricist in Dick Girard who chose Adeline to rhyme with pine. "Sweet Adeline" had its best sales during Prohibition. Harry Armstrong now runs an entertainment booking bureau in Manhattan. Dick Girard clerks in the New York General Post Office...