Word: cannoneers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Annie J. Cannon, the University's famous woman astronomer, will be speaker at the opening general meeting tonight at the Observatory at 8:15 o'clock. She will discuss her recent tour of the observatories of the western United States...
...tremors arising from explosions, the new wave is expected to play a considerable part in proposed uses of the seismograph in army artillery observation, for the location of heavy enemy guns, and also for computation by a gun crew of their accuracy of fire. Both the discharge of a cannon and the explosion of a shell set up vibrations underground which can be traced by earthquake instruments...
...flags to 47 ships, 196.925 tons. > Great Britain's Ministry of Information last week claimed that their seizures of war materials destined for Germany totaled 186.000 tons. Particularly pleased were they to have intercepted 400 tons of molybdenum concentrates and 30,000 tons of manganese, two essentials of cannon steel. Most seizures were made at control ports in the British Isles. Less than a dozen ships had been searched at Gibraltar and Haifa, with only minor seizures (3,000 tons of petroleum, 6,000 of manganese ore, 7,650 of bauxite, 9,000 of iron ore, 500 of frozen...
...along the Rhine and through the Black Forest until it reaches the Swiss frontier at Lake of Constance (see map). It has been under construction for three years and at one time last spring half a million laborers worked on it 20 hours a day. "The world's cannon and artillery cannot break through it," boasted the German high command as it was being rushed toward completion this summer. But in principle the new Siegfried Stellung is just a three-ring version of Colonel Lossberg's old zonal defense system...
...flagpole of Baltimore's Fort McHenry, men in War of 1812 uniforms raised an American flag with 15 stars. Breasting slowly up the Patapsco River came a Coast Guard picket boat, opened fire with its single small forward gun as cannon from the fort returned rounds of blanks. At battle's end the flag on the fort still waved proudly. Thus re-enacted last week on its 125th anniversary was the episode which inspired Lawyer Francis Scott Key to write The Star-Spangled Banner...