Word: cannoned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Conductor Howard Mitchell of Washington's National Symphony Orchestra decided to give his open-air concert audience a noisy treat last summer by playing the 1812 Overture as Tchaikovsky had scored it, with real cannon blasting away in the finale. The cannon-tutti, performed by soldiers from nearby Fort Myer on four 75-mm. howitzers, went off without a hitch, was a big success with capital concertgoers...
...Honorable Clarence Cannon is quite right, i.e., there is no danger of attack. And the Very Most Honorable E. T. Miller is even more right, i.e., the 40,000 Washington waffle-bottoms should be fired. This figure should have about a million more included, covering Federal Government waffle-bottoms all over the country...
Other industries were equally jittery last week. Charles A. Cannon, president of the huge Cannon Mills, biggest U.S. towel-maker, called for voluntary price ceilings on cotton goods. This year's short cotton crop (an estimated 38% below 1949) has boosted raw cotton futures to 40.25? a Ib., highest in 30 years. Cannon feared that if cotton cloth prices followed suit, consumers would demand Government controls...
Missouri's gnarled, antique Democrat Clarence Cannon cried that there was no danger of attack and that, if there were, Government agencies should be moved to places like Chicago, Houston or Denver. Nebraska's G.O.P. Congressman A. L. Miller characterized the plan as a boondoggle cooked up to save the necks of 40,000 "Washington waffle-bottoms." This moved Maryland's Republican Edward T. Miller to a counterproposal: simply fire the 40,000 and use their wages to build a radar fence around...
...fragmentation bomb right behind her. The tank was engulfed in smoke and dirt. Ensign Profilet's plane followed with another 500-pounder. Just to make sure, Loranger clobbered her with a third bomb and we went after the truck. On his first run, Loranger came down with his cannon wide open, then pulled out of his dive and laid a bomb right in the truck bed. As we pulled up, we discovered he had not only disintegrated the truck but had also ripped up the whole road...