Word: garand
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Garand rifles are turned out faster than 1,000 a day; there is a Garand for every soldier "who is supposed to have one." Tanks are ahead of schedule...
Captain Arthur W. Wermuth, 57th Filipino Scout Regiment, has a Vandyke beard, a 45-caliber tommy gun, a Garand rifle, and an unerring eye. Fellow officers on Bataan Peninsula swear admiringly that, although thrice wounded, he has "absolutely accounted for" at least 116 Japanese dead and an inestimable number of prisoners. He dotes on lone reconnaissance patrols; for two weeks in January he spent more time behind Jap lines than in his own. How he works (according to Associated Press's Clark...
...Lynn, John Connell, member of the A.F. of L. building trades and commissioner of the State Housing Authority, Miss Rose Pinnella, of the CIO Textile Workers of America at Lawrence, and James C. Dunne, head of the American Federation of the CIO Government Employees at Springfield who manufacture the Garand rifles...
...ready with prepared designs of modern weapons for industry to manufacture. To meet World War II, it had no outstand ing tank models. It had developed no outstanding artillery piece. The one weapon peculiar to the U.S. Army that it developed was an infantry piece: the semiautomatic Garand rifle...
...Army lacks: snap. They were drilled in the spit-&-polish tradition that is the hallmark of all good outfits. They got demerits for not placing their shoes properly under their beds, for sloppy appearance, for languid carriage. More important, they got an intensive course in weapons, from the Garand rifle to the machine gun and the mortar. They took turns commanding their own companies...