Word: breech
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Prussians came. They refused to be stopped. Against the rapid fire of their infantry, armed with breech-loading rifles, the terrible French bayonet charges were useless. Dashing cavalry attacks were equally futile. General von Moltke, sitting calmly at headquarters, could direct his troops by telegraph with the certainty that his orders would be completely fulfilled. All the French armies retreated steadily. Finally, when McMahon allowed himself and the Emperor to be cornered at Sedan the end of the war was inevitable...
...inch steel bearings loaded into the muzzle of each piece are fired by 22 calibre blank cartridges which load at the breech. Cylindrical lengths of steel fit inside the muzzle to regulate the muzzle velocity and ensure uniformity of range with all four guns...
...empty sea, bos'ns' whistles suddenly piped all hands to the rails. Drums ruffled, trumpets flourished and while junior officers manned bridges with stadimeters to keep the vast armada precisely in line, bands crashed out the national anthem. Twenty-one times gunners tripped the breech blocks of the 6-pounders. These lonely pomps were a rehearsal for the huge crew of 3,.000. Within a week the same show would be put on, two miles south of Ambrose Lightship, for President Roosevelt, standing on the flag bridge of the cruiser Indianapolis. It would be the first time...
...airmail "spoils conference" of 1930. United's President Philip G. Johnson stepped down and out and Vice President W. A. Patterson stepped up and in. New president of Eastern Air, T. W. A. and General Air Lines was North American Aviation's President Ernest Robert Breech. Dropped from the lists were famed Pioneers Thomas B. Doe (E. A. T.), Richard W. Robbins (T. W. A.) and Harris M. Hanshue (Western...
...York, March 8--President Roosevelt's plan for restoration of the airmail to private carriers would crush aviation organizations responsible for most of the improvements which have made American airlines dominant, Ernest F. Breech, President of North American Aviation, Inc., charged tonight...