Word: closers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stark, crude, unlovely shooting iron, the M-3 is nevertheless rugged, light and easy to massproduce. It coughs out a clipful of .45-caliber pistol slugs, can be fired with fair accuracy at short range (as with any submachine gun, the closer the better). Of all-metal construction, the M-3 weighs less than nine pounds, compared to twelve for the famous Thompson "tommy-gun," a standard Army weapon whose relationship to the humble M3" is approximately that of a chronometer to a dollar watch. (Even in quantity production the Thompson gun costs about $40 to make...
...Spencer, first into action was the forward 3-in. gun. A splash foamed beyond the submarine. Another was closer. The port 3-incher roared. Big 5-in. guns fore & aft plowed furrows of water near the U-boat. The air reeked of cordite fumes. Black dust and smoke settled over the Spencer's decks and hung in the air. Stocky, gruff Captain Harold Sloop Berdine kept his ship on a course that gave the gunners a maximum chance...
...guns blasted regularly, closer to the target, now directly on it. Aboard the Spencer, after the first wild confusion, there was order, but out in the blinding sunlight and on the glittering blue water there was death. Chattering 20-mms. sent tracer patterns curving into the slowly moving submarine. On the sub's decks a few figures still moved in the storm...
...State furnishes him all food for himself and his family, and light and heat for his residence." The Superintendent's house was on a hill commanding a fine view of the hospital half a mile away in the valley below. Dr. Mills admitted that he rarely made a closer inspection of any of the 68 buildings. He applied for retirement...
Trolls in the Forests. Outward appearances last week placed the Swedes closer to a break with Germany than at any other time during the war. Sweden's stubborn insistence lifted a paralyzing four-month ban on overseas shipping through the Skagerrak. Angry notes passed over the sinking of two Swedish submarines Ulven and Draken, in Swedish territorial waters. The insult direct was implicit in the appointment of Baron Johan Beck-Früs as Minister to the exiled government in London of Norway's valiant old King Haakon...