Word: colts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...defection of the .38-caliber pistol in the Philippines as a defense weapon was as much the Government's fault as anyone's. They were ordered from the Colt company with a barrel so overbored that a bullet could be dropped right through the barrel without sticking. Add to this the fact that they were furnished with a quite hard bullet, sharp on the point, it is easy to see why they pierced flesh without delivering the shock they could have given if made blunt or square-shouldered. The English furnished their .455-caliber with a hollow...
...Because Colt's Patent Fire Arms factory in Hartford was bogged down with other orders, High Standard just twelve months ago received a British order for 12,000 such guns. Tiny High Standard had World War I-seasoned talent,* but neither facilities nor tools. On a suburban weed patch in Hamden it built a seven-acre, modern steel & glass factory in four months. Into a market already picked bare, it dispatched its experts to find machine tools...
...NAVY COLT-Frank Gruber-Farrar & Rinehart ($2). The penniless book agents, Cragg & Fletcher, are linked to the shooting of a Chicago wastrel who owns a museum-piece Colt once toted by Jesse James. Solution of the gun's secret and two murders finds these extraordinary amateur hawkshaws at their best...
...Alsab's performance was more remarkable. Last February, when Alsab ran his first race, railbirds knew the awkward bay colt had been picked up for $700 at the Saratoga yearling sales the summer before, made him a 70-to-1 shot. He finished last in a field of 14. Since then, under the tutelage of Trainer Sarge Swenke, Alsab has won twelve races in 18 starts. Last week his earnings for the past six months totaled $88,000-probably more than those of his owner, Chicago Attorney Albert Sabath (nephew of Congressman Adolph J. Sabath...
...second heat was more comforting to the Gallon backers. Coming from behind like a fire horse, Johnston's colt nosed out His Excellency, pride of Brooklyn, in a photo finish. Sportswriter John Kieran said Bill Gallon had the longer nose. But Kieran must have been wrong. For in the third heat Bill Gallon breezed past his Yankee rivals, finished nearly three lengths in front of His Excellency, four ahead of Florimel...