Word: arsenal
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Faced with Herbert Kohler's granitic resistance, U.A.W. trimmed its demands. But he kept on balking at even a seniority rule, and U.A.W. called a strike. Kohler laid in an arsenal of submachine guns, shotguns, clubs and tear-gas bombs, settled down for a long siege. Apparently, tough-fibered Herbert Kohler welcomed the strike as an opportunity to shake off Reuther & Co. A high Kohler official predicted that the strike would bring the company 20 years of peace, as had the broken 1934 strike...
Reinier, the son of the director of materiel research at the Watertown Arsenal, and Dushan, the son of an aeronautical engineer with Avco Research Laboratories, are the latest products of the top-notch program of Dr. Albert E. Navez, head of the science department at Newton High School since 1949. Belgian-born Navez, 59, who is also Belgian consul in Boston, starts grooming likely science prospects in junior high school. Says Teacher Navez of Reinier and Dushan: "To them, science is an adventure...
Isabela because of overcrowding in mainland prisons. The day before they boarded Valinda, the prisoners mutinied. They raided the arsenal, disarmed the few remaining guards, then pillaged Villamil (pop. about 200), the island's administrative settlement. Loading their loot into a pair of stolen boats, 21 of them set course for the mainland, hoping for a chance to seize a more seaworthy craft en route; Valinda became their prize...
HUNTSVILLE, ALA. (610-636 alt., est. 55,000 pop.), Madison Co. seat; 5 mi. from U.S. Army's Redstone Arsenal, Ballistic Missile Agency, Ordnance Guided Missile School; 2 R.R. lines (Southern Ry., Louisville and Nashville R.R.); 2 airlines (8 fits, out dly., incl. drct. srvce. to N.Y., Wash., Chi., Atlanta, Miami); Accoms.: 3 hotels, 21 motels; Local bus fare: 10?; Swim: muncpl. pools; Fish: Tenn. River; Yrly. evnts.: Catholic Festival (Aug.), co. fair (Sept.); i-hr. pkng. Imt. dwntwn.; Avge. temp.: 74.6 deg. summer, 50 deg. winter...
...Says a longtime resident: "If you could stand on the courthouse steps with as much as a dollar in your pocket, you were the richest man in town." Huntsville's big boom began in 1950, when Wernher von Braun & Co. arrived to start making Army missiles at Redstone Arsenal, a World War II shell-loading installation that had been taken out of commission...