Word: gunness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Fostoria, Ohio, machine gun bandits headed by a red-haired man raided a bank, wounded five people, got away with $17,299. Said the assistant cashier: 'It was Dillinger without any question." ¶In Mooresville, Ind. Dillinger's home town, two residents reported seeing Dillinger in a car. Federal agents blocked all roads, donned bullet proof vests, took machine guns, raided the Dillinger farm, found Father Dillinger mending a fence...
...Cornell. Ben Prouty in center field and Phil Hines at second have given the Varsity an extra punch it didn't have before they were sent into the second battle with the Ithacans, and Mitch isn't going to break up a winning outfit. Charley Nevin, the siege gun who is leading the League in batting with a .500 average, will have another chance to push up his record...
...their only defeat of the year by nosing out the Tufts '37 team in a last minute rally 4-3. At the close of the third quarter the Tuft's men had a commanding 3-1 lead, and it was not until fifty two seconds before the final gun that Laurence H. Levy scored the tying goal. After playing one scoreless overtime period, the Freshmen finally triumphed on a goal by Nicholas J. Bounakes...
...fore: whether Japan will be able to secure her position in the Far East economically as the fundamental requisite for the maintenance of here claims for doing so politically. The opening of new trade war that encompasses the British Empire, and hence the world, is the opening gun of the struggle which will be more likely to prove the strength or weakness of Japan's position relative to the Western World than all the diplomatic interchanges that have resulted from her recent stand...
...Armstrong, France's Schneider-Creusot, Germany's Krupp, Czechoslovakia's Skoda. Their interlocking connections (which Authors Engelbrecht & Hanighen show in charts) are almost incredibly complex; the only real competitor any of them has is peace. Says Author Seldes: "It is a recurrent paradox of the international gun trade that nations arm their enemies." During the War German scrap iron at the rate of 150,000 tons a month was shipped into France, via Switzerland. French bauxite (aluminum) found its way into the construction of German submarines; German barbed wire helped defend Verdun...