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Pending in Congress last week was a bill to award Rifle Inventor John C. Garand $100,000. Reason: as a civilian employe of the Army's Springfield (Mass.) Armory, Inventor Garand would otherwise get nothing but his $5,400-per-year salary for developing the Army's Garand rifle...
...After thorough tests, the Marine Corps found the Garand unreliable under tough conditions, but TIME is relieved to learn that an Army outfit got faithful performance from this controversial weapon...
...disagree with the results of the Garand v. Springfield test, as made by the U. S. Marine Corps and published in TIME, March 24. I am a member of the regular Army and am armed with the Garand. I was with the 1st Division Task Force when we made beach landings on the Island of Culebra from Jan. 27 to Feb. 13, 1941. We too had to make landings in small boats and the rifles did become wet with salt spray and were dragged in the sandy beach. Many were dropped into the water also. But in the entire company...
...also said that Ordnance tests had already and conclusively proved the Garand's efficiency...
Civilian Engineer John C. Garand and his co-workers at Springfield Armory had licked many of their worst production problems, still had a tough job, but were doing very well at it. Winchester Repeating Arms Co. has been trying to get into Garand production for 17 months, has a contract for 65,000 Garands, last week was edging into real production after 17 months of arduous effort. By next year the Army expects to have enough Garands (400,000) for its expanded force (not all soldiers are riflemen...