Word: enfield
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Keys to the Kingdom. In Enfield, England, Mrs. Horace Westgarth was granted a divorce after she testified that when she told her husband that she was about to leave him, he gravely shook her hand, said that he hoped she would be happy wherever she was going, asked her to leave him the keys to the house...
Also elected to the Committee were: Brian F. Reynolds of Lowell, Mass. and Adams; Samuel E. Shaw H of Enfield, Conn. and Lowell; John W. Stakes of St. Davids, Pa. and Leverett; and Peter Strauss of Great Neck, N.Y. and Winthrop...
...last week on Salisbury Plain as Britain demonstrated her prize new .280-cal. rifle. More than simple curiosity was involved: this is the weapon with which Britain hopes to equip not only her own infantrymen (who have been using the bolt-action, single-shot .303-cal. Lee-Enfield since the South African War), but all the North Atlantic Treaty nations. Disagreement over it caused a hitch at the recent small-arms conference in Washington, where Britain's Defense Minister Emanuel Shinwell argued...
...major attempt at standardization failed. Britain went ahead with plans to replace her old .303-caL, bolt-action Lee-Enfield rifle, which dates back, to the Boer War, with a lighter, faster, .280-cal. automatic model. U.S. experts had hoped the British would adopt a -3O-cal. weapon capable of firing the same ammunition as the U.S. Garand...
...carry out last year's decision to switch from British to U.S. arms. As fast as her present British-type equipment can be turned over to West European troops, Canada is replacing it with U.S. arms. Five thousand M-1 Garand rifles arrived recently to replace .303 Enfield rifles with which the Canadians helped outfit a Netherlands infantry division in December. Last week, at Eisen hower's request, a Luxembourg field artillery regiment was being supplied with two dozen 25-pounders; 105-mm. howitzers will take their place. When standardization is complete, Canadian and U.S. armies will...