Word: breech
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hercules and Du Pont contracts were only a start. Before this empty breech of U. S. defense is properly loaded, Major General Charles Macon Wesson, Army Chief of Ordnance, has many an other contract to allot. Congress has already appropriated and authorized $244,000,000, is now ready to lay out $700,000,000 more for powder plants, for great factories where smokeless and high explosive will be loaded into small-arms ammunition (pistol, rifle, machine gun), aerial bombs, artillery shells. The Army has laid out plans for building 33 plants in five U. S. areas, has specified that...
...universal defense training for the civil population. These ideas faded as his passion for mathematical precision advanced him. His checking for artillery fire last time in France was so good that sometimes his barrage shots, before Canadian advances, blasted German guns before they could get their muzzle and breech covers off. Soldiers, in Canada and elsewhere, rate him the ablest officer in the British Empire, barred from higher command because he is a colonial...