Word: colts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...estimated that 50% of school children in the State would be downed before the epidemic was over. Several defense industries in Connecticut were hampered by illness; at Winchester Repeating Arms in New Haven 1,200 workers out of 7,500 were absent; many were sick in Hartford's Colt's Patent Fire Arms and United Aircraft Corp...
...Museum's Director Thomas Colt Jr. thought the show would "liberate some people's ideas of what art is," thought it might even result in a Virginia branch of the Society for Sanity in Art. Said he: "I hope there will be a few healthy fights down here." Meanwhile Walter P. Chrysler Jr. beamed, sipped punch, talked with strained, avid interest to Richmond's white-haired matrons. Said he: "Art is always the vanguard of civilization...
OMAI, FIRST POLYNESIAN AMBASSADOR TO ENGLAND-Thomas Blake Clark-Colt Press...
...submachine gun never got a real hold in World War I, soon afterward began to figure more in gang news than in Army talk. Of 15,000 Thompsons ("Tommies") manufactured by Colt in 1921, nearly 5,000 were still unsold 18 years later. But World War II revised military opinion: the light, easily handled submachine gun (spitting a stream of .45-calibre bullets 300-400 yards, battle sight-i.e., point-blank range) turned out to be a potent weapon in shock tactics. Recently Great Britain was reported eager to buy 250,000 to 500,000 from...
...invented by patient, reticent Eugene G. Reising, who started tinkering with firearms in boyhood and has been at it ever since. Gunsmith Reising has designed weapons for many of the big U. S. manufacturers, spent 16 years with Colt, holds some 60 patents and enough marksmanship medals to clutter his home at Hartford, Conn...