Word: cannoneer
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Divorced. Anne Ludlow Cannon Reynolds Smith, 23; from Frank Brandon Smith Jr., real estate man, her second husband; in Hot Springs, Ark. Charges: general indignities. Mrs. Smith's first husband was the late tobacco heir Zachary Smith Reynolds, whose second wife was Singer Elsbeth ("Libby") Holman...
...brother Adolph, left Bidestroff in the then Germna territory of the Saar and came to France in 1836. More particularly Brothers Eugene and Adolph came to Le Crcesot (literally "The Hollow" or "The Crucible") where to the south of the Burgundy wine district a small foundry had been making cannon from the days of Louis XVI. With perfect impartiality it had supplied first the monarchy, then the republic, and then Napoleon's Empire with its products, bought the foundry (La Societe Generale des Hauts Feurneaux) for 2,500,000 francs--and were then forced to wait for almost twenty years...
...able to watch the sweep of events that led to the France-Prussian War. Alfred Krupp saw it coming, too. He like Schneider, was capable of an internationalism far above the confines of narrow patriotism and was anxious to equip Napoleon Ill's armies with his own cannon a suggestion not entirely without its legic or, even, its sportsmanship, for Krupp had borrowed in Paris (from the same banking house of Setlliere as had set Engene Schneider up in business) and the money with which he made the guns that late, humbled France at Mets and Scdan...
Nothing in the career of the Schneider dynasty is more remarkable than the fact that it was able to overcome this sheeking disgrace and actually to get the job of re-equipping the new armies of the Republic. This time Engene Schneider supplied France with cannon modeled upon the designs of the victorious...
Bethlehem's products (you need only turn to Standard Statistics or Bethlehem's own most recent annual report) you will find armor plate, projectiles, gun and shell forgings, battleships, battle cruisers, destroyers, submarines and airplane carriers all listed as products of Bethlehem's plants. The site at Bethlehem where cannon and armour plate are made is separate from the rest of the plant. No outsiders are allowed, and it may be that Mr. Schwab has never been able to evade the vigilance of his watchmen. But if he could once get inside he would see a triumph of inventiveness...