Word: breeching
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...gullets of tommy guns, Brownings, Chicago pianos and automatic cannon. The researchers had plenty of troubles. One of the worst was the shortage of such alloying elements as nickel, chromium, tung sten and molybdenum. But eventually they developed a noncritical steel which would expand on firing to seal the breech, then contract quickly enough to permit ejection of the empty case...
When the Army & Navy took the Circus ("Human Projectile") Zacchinis, her uncle and her brother, Victoria Zacchini, 19, stepped into the breech, flew out of the muzzle of the family's man-shooting cannon, equaled the 200-ft. family record...
...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...