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Ernest Robert Breech, general assistant treasurer of General Motors, was elected president, chairman of the board and chairman of the executive committee of North American Aviation following General Motors acquiring 51% control. Elected to the board of 21 members were eleven General Motors...
...case of rain the meeting will be held in the breech recess of No. 3 piece at Soldiers Field...
Benito Mussolini fired 24 shots at Italy's national rifle tournament, scored twelve bull's-eyes, forgot to open his breech lock when finished. Said an official, "I am sorry, Your Excellency, but you are fined five lire [26?]." Smiling, Il Duce paid...
Baritone Lawrence Sibbett will make himself a flat, broad nose next season. He will clap on a kinky black wig, cork hi. face. He will wear scarlet breeches, light blue coat, patent leather boots, brass spurs and swagger importantly around, showing off his pearl-handled revolver loaded with five ordinary bullets and a special silver one. All of a sudden he will hear the distant beat of tom-toms, 72 to a minute and he will start supposedly into a forest, spend his first bullet at thick of night on formless, brightwood creatures who will mock him. His second bullet...
...then famed gun: the Harper's Ferry musket). His three sons Philo, Samuel and Eliphalet Jr., carried on, but 23 years after the Civil War Marcellus Hartley bought control of the company, and his grandson Marcellus Hartley Dodge is now its chairman. Remington first developed the hammerless, solid-breech, repeating shotgun and the hammerless unloading shotgun, introduced the paper shotgun shell and the metallic cartridge in the U. S. It made the deadly little Derringer short barreled pistol, carried in the sash of many a gambler. Newest Remington shells and cartridges are Kleanbore, with potassium chlorate eliminated from the priming...