Word: cannonism
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...missing for four days. Cruising east, some 60 miles off the coast of Estonia and no miles from the Swedish coast, the defenseless Catalina was ambushed.* Two Russian MIG-15 jets bansheed down and made seven passes at the Catalina, one of them blasting away with its 20-mm. cannon. Hit several times, the Swedish plane got off a message to its home base: it had been crippled but would try for home...
...proved that he knew as much about business as about guns. When he took over, Oerlikon was a machine-tool company with few tools, no liquid assets, a work force of 80, and no orders. Biihrle looked around for a new product, bought the patents on a 20-mm. cannon. Within five years, orders for it were pouring in from China, Finland, Japan and South America. By 1936, Bührle bought up all the stock in the company...
...class of 70) expelled just before Commencement for participation in the "Great Rebellion of 1823." Some 50 years later and 39 after John's death, the faculty backed down and granted the group their diplomas "in absentia." Primary prank of the notorious Class of 1823 was rolling cannon balls down the stairs of the tottering Yard dormitories...
...building was purchased by the University in 1896 along with the property on which the Germanic Museum now stands. The building soon came to be called Cannon House, after the late Walter B. Cannon, '96, professor of Physiology, who occupied it for 30 years. It was moved by horse in 1930 to make way for the Institute of Geographical Exploration. Since 1942 Cannon House has been home to such organizations as the School for Overseas Administration, which trained men in such languages as Chinese and Japanese, a group of chaplains, a fraternity, and-an International House for students...
...fame spread beyond France, he began training a team of assistants. He taught them his secrets, but none could quite duplicate his touch. Whenever business slacked off, Rudier & Co. made metal castings for French industry. "To keep his team together," says a friend, "Rudier would cast cannon balls if necessary...