Word: barrelers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...advertisement this week under the glaring banner: WHAT'S THE MATTER WITH THIS COUNTRY? The ad went over the same barren, dreary ground as the daily headlines: Our own young boys are dying bravely for us; so are Russians, British, Chinese; but in Washington the spectacle of pork-barrel politics is as unblushing as ever. The ad denounced the farm bloc as "those to whom V means Votes in November." Other culprits: the labor lobby, the anti-labor bloc, the silver bloc, all kinds of blocs. Said the Citizens For Victory, taking shame for the nation: "December 7-Bataan...
...Bumbling Earl Godwin's sudden emergence as one of radio's high-priced newsmen is a triumph for corn. His reports from Washington for NBC have always sounded as if they were delivered from a cracker barrel near the stove in the general store. He used to end a local broadcast with a "God bless you one and all." Once, he omitted the tag line and received ten indignant letters from as many old ladies. Washington newsmen believe that it was Henry Ford himself who picked Godwin's raspy drawl to supplant William J. Cameron (TIME...
Monner confines crushed dry ice in a special chamber of the gun. There it becomes part liquid, part gas, maintains a constant pressure. The trigger unlooses the gas by a valve, to shoot lead pellets through a regulation barrel. By regulating the length of time the valve is open, the penetration power of bullets can be controlled, Monner says, to a finer degree than with powder. One 5? loading is good for 2,000 shots...
Added advantages: no fouling (carbon dioxide evaporates completely), cool operation-the barrel, instead of heating up, sometimes gathers frost...
...caught two Italian battleships and a heavy cruiser in their bomb-sights, proved that those secret U.S. instruments work superbly. Twenty bombs plastered one of the battleships, 15 the other. Said the flight commander, Major Alfred F. Kalberer, of LaFayette, Ind.: "It was like shooting fish in a barrel." Unhappily, the fish refused to die. Later an R.A.F. torpedo slowed one of the battleships, sank the bombed cruiser...