Word: breech
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...little law struck other big sparks. Ernest R. Breech, president of Bendix Aviation said, "It is the greatest deterrent to increased war production that could possibly be thought of." President Roger D. Edward of Atlas Tack dolefully wired to Senator George, "A large group of key management personnel in industry are just about ready to throw up the sponge and join the Army as buck privates." Appointed last week, a Senate subcommittee is working out an answer to the problem of giving business some end to uncertainty, some limit to the number of times a renegotiation board can reopen...
Interest in rockets fizzled out about 1885 because of artillery improvements like the rifled bore, breech loading, independent recoil. As early as 1922, the Germans resumed secret experiments with military rockets. So did the armies of other nations, including...
...Bendix Aviation made downward adjustments in Government contract prices to the tune of $73,354,000, with more to come. Savings resulted from huge orders for aircraft parts and accessories, permitting mass-production methods. Bendix President Ernest Robert Breech told his department heads last fall: "Get this profits thing right. We don't want to be criticized for making too much profit on Government business...
...DeLee was a pioneer in obstetrical movies. Many of his devoted students who had just come from the Chicago funeral saw the gentle, goateed, slender man with the dark, alert eyes once again at the Congress-in one of his movies. The film instructed doctors on breech presentation (buttocks or feet first instead of head). Dr. DeLee made 16 such movies, paying half the expense of all of them. He always looked for a pretty blonde mother to take the leading role...
...Near Paris, French optical firms are making tank periscopes, range finders, telescopic gun sights and other fire-control equipment for the Germans. At Levallois-Perret and La Courneuve, French armorers are making 25-and 47-mm. guns. The big Schneider plant at Le Creusot makes machine-gun barrels, jackets, breech blocks and screws. Before the surprise raid on Renault, the Germans used to brag that 80% of French production was helping the Axis war effort...