Word: cannoned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...FIGHTERS are being -equipped with new 20-mm. cannon that can fire explosive shells faster than the standard (1,200 rounds per min.) .50-cal. machine gun. The new weapon, which fires cartridges by electricity instead of the usual mechanical hammer, was developed by Ford and Illinois Institute of Technology engineers from World War II German plans, is now being mass-produced by General Motors' Pontiac Division...
...John Kenneth Cannon, 62, retired Air Force general, took over as chairman of the board of Fletcher Aviation Corp., one of the largest makers of detachable wing tanks for the Air Force. One of the world's great air tacticians, "Uncle Joe" Cannon put in more time in uniform than any other Air officer (37 years), commanded the Twelfth Air Force during World War II and the U.S. Air Force in Germany during most of the Berlin airlift. He replaces Wendell S. Fletcher, who will continue to serve as corporation president...
Both weapons will be used to supplement the Army's 280-mm. atomic cannon (range: 20 miles) and the Air Force's radio-controlled Matador jets already stationed in Germany...
...Cannon spotted the robber in his room at 2:30 a.m. yesterday. The thief, evidently fearing capture, fled without any of Cannon's belongings...
...Mark W. Cannon 2PA, yesterday's near-theft victim, identified the criminal as slim, five feet-seven inches tall, about 23 years old, and as wearing light clothes. This same robber, Toohy said, is probably responsible as well for thefts this year in Dunster, Leverett, and Eliot Houses and at the Law School's Hastings Hall...