Word: cannoneers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...traveled on land (see p. 47). But Russian-born Inventor Ivan Eremeef, Philadelphia protégé of Orchestra-man Leopold Stokowski, was last week tinkering with a model for just such a craft. Inventor Eremeef's wingless, finned, torpedo-like conception, carrying two small cannon and four hours' fuel supply, would zip 1,000 miles or more to bombard an enemy, could then retreat at a speed faster than some enemy bullets could chase...
Warren Martin Cannon, Independence, Missouri--William Chrisman High School...
...other 11 representatives from Harvard included Dr. Annie J. Cannon, committee on stellar spectra; Dr. Dorrit Hoffleit, committee on meteors and related problems; Miss Jenka Mohr, committee on nebulae and star clusters; and Dr. Theodore E. Sterne, Dr. Martin Schwarzschild, Dr. Leo Goldberg, Miss Henrietta Swope, Miss Constance Boyd, Mrs. R. Newton Mayall, Miss Rebecca Jones, and James G. Baker...
Partly as comic relief, partly to prove that Leftist Spain's munitions agents had been hoodwinked into paying out good Spanish gold for outdated equipment, the show also included a 3-ton, 6-in. cannon, mounted on a high-wheeled carriage and an old Winchester rifle. The cannon, worthy of a museum, was manufactured at Obujov. Russia in 1864. The Winchester, with the date 1860 still visible on its barrel, was the type used by U. S. frontiersmen in the Indian fighting...
...Krupp cannon, as a delicate compliment to her, were called Big Berthas.) The Kaiser permitted her husband to change his name to Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach "to ensure at least an appearance of continuity of the Essen dynasty." Krupp von Bohlen built model huts for his workers but he was always "master in his own house"-meaning that he permitted no unions. Between 1914 and 1918 Krupp's profits were magnificent. But when the Kaiser came to address Krupp employes in the last days of the War and cried, "We will fight and hold out to the last...