Word: gunness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...independent armament firm is the Ancients Establishments Hotchkiss et Cie, founded by Banjamin Berkelyey Hotchkiss, American engineer and inventor of the Hotchkiss Machine Gun, born in Watertown, Connecticut, in 1826. British, French, and American capital are intermingled in the company now, but the managing director is a self-expatriated ex-ensign of the U. S. Navy. Lawrence Vincent Benet, uncle of Stephen Vincent Benet, the poet. His American citizenship did not stop him from selling tons of guns and other war materials to Japan at the same time that Secretary of Siate Stimson was vainly trying to keep the Japanese...
...other man to win the way out of office forever. This strange character, the greatest armament salesman the world has ever known, struck a major spark in the world when he collided with an American of somewhat similar interests. Zaharoff at that time was a salesman for the Nordenfeldt Guns & Ammunition Co., Ltd., of England and had done very well in profits out of the perpetual dogfights in the Balkans and the Near East, to which he was puryeyor and of which he was frequently (it was an easy trick once he learned it) instigator. The American that gladdened...
...against any sort of international standings. We have an armament bill over $200,000,000 a year. We wrecked the Naval Conference at Geneva in 1927. We have our Midvale Co. (controlled by the Baldwin Locomotive Works) which prospered mightily during the war and has continued the manufacture of guns and gun forgings, armor plate and projectiles; our Colt's Patent Firearms Mfg. Co. which supplies machine guns as well as squirrel riffles, which declared an extra dividend in 1933; our Remington Arms Co. (controlled by Du Pont) whose output of firearms and ammunition together is over one third...
...apparently with us now--have, in fact been continually with us since Mr. Schwab unloosed this shaft of oratory. In the official listing of Bethlehem's products (you need only turn to Standard Statistics or Bethlehem's own most recent annual report) you will find armor plate, projectiles, gun and shell forgings, battleships, battle cruisers, destroyers, submarines and airplane carriers all listed as products of Bethlehem's plants. The site at Bethlehem where cannon and armour plate are made is separate from the rest of the plant. No outsiders are allowed, and it may be that Mr. Schwab has never...
...taste and good manners." Last week the award of the Pulitzer Prize, which may not raise the national dramatic level but can usually be counted upon to raise a dust cloud of national controversy, ran true to form. Taking advantage of advance press releases, gabby Walter Winchell jumped the gun a full two weeks by announcing in his radio period and tabloid column that the 1933-34 prizewinner was Men in White by Sidney Kingsley. This was startling and unpleasant news to the play jury composed of Clayton Hamilton, oldtime drama-critic, Author Walter Prichard Eaton (Boy Scouts...