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Springfield's answer to the demand for more firepower was the T 44, a fully automatic, .30-cal. rifle weighing one pound less than the unwieldy, semiautomatic 9½-lb. Garand, and carrying 20 rounds in its magazine clip to the Garand's eight...
Challenge from Belgium. Out of habit the Army spurned the chance to tap private industry for new ideas, turned instead to its arsenal at Springfield, Mass., which developed such trusty performers as the bolt-action Model 1903 of World War I and the M 1 Garand of World...
...largest Red-run union, the United Electrical, Radio & Machine Workers of America (U.E.), has contracts with hundreds of plants, including such giants as Westinghouse and General Electric, and has about 100,000 members. More than a third of the workers in plants of International Harvester, which makes Garand rifles and Army trucks, are members of the Communist-bossed Farm Equipment-United Electrical Workers. The Red-dyed Mine, Mill & Smelter Workers Union has a strong hold on U.S. production of defense metals, from copper to uranium. Party-liners are in control of the American Communications Association, bargaining agent...
...Armory and Arsenal at Springfield, Mass, retired an old civil service employee who had spent the past 34 years there working on rifles. At a testimonial dinner, shy, Canadian-born John C. Garand, 65, inventor of the Army's basic M-1 (Garand) rifle, was given, as a farewell trophy, the millionth M-1 which was made during World War II (over 4,000,000 have been made for the Army). Said Gunsmith Garand, looking at his famous product: "I've never felt bad about designing the rifle even though its only real...
...after the autopsy, a brass M1 shell was found at a point near which the fatal shot had obviously been fired. The rifles of 21 men who had been nearest the position were checked by the New Jersey state police. The shell matched Edgar's Garand. The platoon was taken back to the area of the exercise and ordered to reconstruct the attack. Everyone turned up but Edgar, who had stolen a car and gone over the hill again...