Word: gunness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been waiting with 700 gallons of gasoline aboard. Stopping neither to get food nor to tell anyone but his timer that he was out to add the transcontinental non stop record to the world landplane speed mark he already holds (TIME, Sept. 23), he gave his plane the gun...
Dark of eye and square of jaw, effective William Esty is an amateur magician. He has a profound knowledge of the human hunger for health and wellbeing, having been gassed while behind an A. E. F. machine gun. This experience, plus his instinct for broad-gauge ballyhoo, has made him a modern reincarnation of the oldtime medicine show "doctor." The therapeutic qualities he first discovered in his cigaret program ("Get a Lift With a Camel") are now to be noted in tea. If the $500,000 test campaign shows results after a year, Mr. Esty confidently expects to develop...
...North, Dictator Mussolini's flying son Vittorio was vexed by a shell which knocked the machine gun support off his plane and exploded freakishly with little damage in the cockpit, after which he made a neat landing, unscathed...
Paced by Harold Stanhope and Matthew Chrostowake, New England champion free-stylers, the Rhode Islander holders of 21 A. A. U. blue ribbons and five world records expect to swim the Crimson under from the opening gun...
...agent of a British armament firm, Nordenfeldt's, gave him a job selling guns in the Balkans, at ?5 a week. Zaharoff was 28. Nordenfeldt made not only machine-guns but submarines, then a drug on the naval market. When Zaharoff sold a submarine to his native Greece, then sold two to Turkey, he laid the foundations of his fortune and his technique. Nordenfeldt combined with its rival, Maxim Gun Co.; later the combination merged with Vickers. With every step Zaharoff got more commissions, more stock, more power. Soon he was selling armaments all over the world-Russia, Europe...