Word: barrelful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After taking a hard look at the Taft-Hartley Act, the National Labor Relations Board decided three years ago that it had a double-barreled weapon for blasting Communists out of the labor movement. Barrel No. i: The act requires all union leaders to file non-Communist affidavits before a union may qualify for the board's vital services, of which an important one is certification of the union as a col lective bargaining agent. Barrel No. 2: it seemed logical to the board that, in cases where unions persisted in re-electing officers indicted or convicted for falsifying...
...weighs only 6.8 pounds because it is made of lightweight aluminum alloy and plastics, is so soundly constructed that it sacrifices neither accuracy nor sturdiness. Unlike almost any other rifle, the fully automatic Armalite can be manufactured on an assembly-line basis; it discards the traditional drilled steel barrel for a barrel liner made of stainless steel tubing, and swaged, i.e., forced by machine, into the aluminum-alloy barrel...
Last week the groans were rising to a new crescendo. In the first 230,000-acre sale four weeks ago, 23 oil companies paid $27.5 million for leases, plus a 12½% royalty on every barrel of oil produced. A fortnight ago the Navajos got $3.2 million for a second 82,200-acre block of land. Last week a third and final 158,505 acres went on sale, brought $2.9 million and pushed the total Navajo take to $33.6 million...
...which entered Sill's neck from a perpendicular angle, was the one that splattered his flesh on the ceiling, the one that Violet triggered from the floor. Furthermore, Expert MacDonald pointed out that the shots fired at Violet were aimed from at least 15 inches away; the gun barrel was 28 inches long. Conclusion : she could not have shot herself...
...Oldsmobile has 17 body styles. The cars are more than 2 in. lower and 5 in. longer, have more graceful grilles, with double bumpers, 18% bigger windshields, and a new tail treatment. Horsepower: up another 37 h.p. to 277 h.p., with four-barrel carburetor and twin exhausts standard on most models...