Word: bolte
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Yoga-trained Lou Nova, 26: a heavyweight prize fight against 32-year-old Max Baer, onetime world's champion; by a technical knockout in the eighth round; after Madcap Max had shot his bolt, was too weary to get out of Nova's way; at Manhattan's Madison Square Garden...
Last week the biggest thing mankind has ever made began to spurt power . As Grand Coulee's first bolt of electricity sped to Bonneville's Government-owned transmission lines, it signaled the start of another round in an old, old fight : public v. private power...
...Navy, they get their small arms from the War Department, and wartime supply problems would be simplified if both services used the same rifle. Last winter the Marine Corps decided to have the rifle matter out once and for all. A board was appointed to test the bolt-action Springfield and three semi-automatic rifles (Garand, Winchester, Johnson). The board included such acknowledged experts as Lieut. Colonel William W. Ashurst, a crack rifleman, and Lieut. Colonel Merritt A. Edson, who had earned Marine Corps fame in Nicaragua, hunting down Sandinistas. The Winchester, barely out of the laboratory, was never...
...rifles were doused in mud "of light consistency." Results: "The M-1903 [Springfield] rifle can be operated. However, the bolt became harder to operate as the test progressed ... The M-I [Garand] rifles would not function and the longer an attempt was made to operate the bolt by hand the harder it became to open...
...troops have landed through heavy surf sufficient to break completely over men and equipment, and immediately engage in combat on a sandy beach." Results: both Garands failed to operate as semi-automatic rifles (i.e., reload automatically after each round). One failed completely and the firer had to hammer the bolt with a mallet; "the other operated by hand with extreme difficulty." The Springfields continued to work, with slight difficulty. On these salt water tests, the Garand was rated last, the Springfield first. (See pictures of how bullets are made...