Word: arsenal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Premier Phya Bahol defiantly announced, "You have until 3 p. m. to depart." After that the Government's artillery opened fire and censorship shut down tight. Europeans who fled from Bangkok to the Straits Settlements reported that the Siamese Navy had joined the revolt and seized the National Arsenal but that the Army was still supporting the Government...
...When the founder of both Cadillac Motor Car Co. and Lincoln Motor Co. died the next year his cause passed into the hands of his son and his grandson. For a decade this "Grand Old Man of the automobile industry," who had made rifles in the U. S. Springfield Arsenal during the Civil War and Liberty motors in his Lincoln plant during the World War, tried to make Henry Ford acknowledge an obligation not to himself but to the creditors and stock-holders of Lincoln Motor Co., which Mr. Ford bought at a receiver's sale...
...more than 100 years dying men all over the world have known the busy little city of Springfield, Mass, for one kind of thing: the muskets, horse pistols, breech loaders and magazine rifles successively manufactured there in the U. S. Government arsenal. Last week Springfield received a gentler distinction by joining the mounting list of U. S. cities that boast a modern, endowed Art Museum...
...caught napping, the officers who had brought a small arsenal of pistols, rifles, machine guns and thousands of rounds of ammunition into the National, poured back a withering, effective fire. Soldiers who tried to rush the hotel were dropped in their tracks by sharpshooting officers, died writhing, groaning and gushing blood upon the grass. Fascinated by this sight was a U. S. meat-packing executive, Robert G. Lotspiech, Swift & Co.'s assistant sales manager in Havana. As he watched from the eleventh floor terrace of the nearby Lopez Serrano Apartments, a stray bullet drilled him through the heart...
...part of the Managua arsenal has exploded," the President told correspondents "The sound of the exploding ammunition was like machine gun fire but the entire country is peaceful. no cause for alarm...