Word: barrelers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...originally sponsored the Garand, General Wesson passed the buck to the Infantry. He also confirmed a rumor which reflects more grave ly on Army bureaucrats than on their new rifle. In the fourth year (1939) of Garand tests, the Army discovered a de fect so serious that a new barrel had to be designed. As of last Feb. 16, the Army had on hand 28,088 Garands with the faulty barrel. It is still getting them (200 a day from its own Springfield Arsenal), will have 35,000 to 40,000 defective Garands in service before tools are in stalled...
...enough for ordinary combat). N. R. A.'s Garand was disgracefully inaccurate at 600 yards and less. On a 600-yard target, with the gun locked in a bench vise, its shots at the end of 60 rounds were hitting six feet below the mark. Reason: ". . .The barrel . . . warped or buckled as it heated from our slow-fired shooting (only 130 shots in three hours...
...hand for the celebration was the chief character of the Barn Dance, spry, crackly-voiced, cotton-chin-whiskered Uncle Ezra (dapper little Pat Barrett, 52), who greets the audience with "Howdy, evvabuddy," warms evvabuddy's heart with his cracker-barrel philosophy. Uncle Ezra was in Hollywood, to play in Bob Burns's forthcoming Comin' 'Round the Mountain. So Widow Winnie Whipple, whose ineffectual attempts to land Uncle Ezra furnish continuity of a sort for the program, exclaimed "Hollywood my left hind foot!" and wept that he should turn out to be "nothin...
Depression I put an end to the halcyon days. Turpentine prices slumped from better than 50? a gallon to 31? in 1931, rosin from $8.50 a barrel to $2.95. By 1933 the housing collapse and a shrunken export market reduced the naval stores industry to a pauperish $13,792,000. In March 1936 producers met at Jacksonville, formed the American Turpentine Farmers Association Cooperative to cut excess production, get rid of surplus stocks, undertake conservation...
...naval stores industry was still worried last week. On its chief market (Savannah, Ga.) turpentine was selling for 29? a gallon, rosin from $4-$6.10 a barrel. World War II had crimped exports to a point where factors figured they would be lucky to ship 250,000 bbl. of rosin (50% of '39), 7.000,000 gallons of turpentine (75% of '39) abroad this year. Although surplus stocks of turpentine are down, warehouses groaned with a staggering 1,200,000 bbl. of rosin. Main hope is for a better market...