Word: buffalo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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CANNON big enough to knock down heavily armored enemy planes may soon replace the machine guns on U.S. Air Force jet fighters. The Air Force has given Buffalo Arms, Inc. of Buffalo, N.Y. the first contract ($4,000,000) for a new fast-firing, 30-mm. aircraft cannon whose projectile is nearly three times bigger than that now used in the .50-cal. machine guns...
Slight of Hand. In Buffalo, up for sentencing after pleading guilty, Forger Leander Jones confided to the judge that he could neither read nor write...
...robust St. Nick, a reindeer and a star-carrying angel, all suspended from a crescent moon; and "Spring," a versatile, pastel menage of rabbits, flowers, birds and butterflies ($1 and $1.95, Scamanda Mobiles, Manhattan). ¶Decorative abstractions, such as Sculptor Marechal Brown's "Tapered Quills," looking like giant buffalo teeth strung on an Indian brave's necklace ($33, Gotham Lighting Corp., New York City). ¶Elegant, modernistic fish in contrastingly colored woods, handmade by Connecticut Sculptor Clark Voorhees ($270, Hansen, Manhattan). ¶Children's mobiles, with figures from nursery rhymes ($3.95, Spacecraft, Detroit) ; "Rocket" and a "Circus...
Died. James Earle Fraser, 76, who at 17 fashioned the model for one of the most famed and popular of U.S. sculptures, End of the Trail, depicting a weary Indian sagging on an exhausted pony, later designed the buffalo nickel; of a heart ailment; in Westport, Conn...
Eastward Ho! Allen's first move was to merge C.F. & I. with another of his interests. Wickwire Spencer Steel Co. of Buffalo. That gave the company two blast furnaces in the East plus fabricating equipment in New England. More important, C.F. & I. also got Wickwire's Plant Superintendent Alwin Franz, a crack operating man who started in the steel business as an open-hearth pitman and is now C.F. & I.'s president...