Word: gunness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...began growling at President Hoover before the London Naval Conference of 1930. He said the President was "starving" the Navy. He accused him of "congenital pacifism." He loudly deplored the London agreement, which required the U. S. to put part of its auxiliary naval strength into small 6-in.-gun cruisers, as a "surrender to the British." When the London Treaty was ratified, he set up a clamor, as the Navy League's president, for speedy cruiser construction which would bring the U. S. fleet up to its authorized strength. A $767,000,000 Navy League building program was advanced...
Remington Arms Co., Inc., older than Winchester by nearly half a century, always its peer. The first Remington rifle was made by Eliphalet Remington in 1816. He died in 1861, weakened by the strain of upping production for the Civil War (then famed gun: the Harper's Ferry musket). His three sons Philo, Samuel and Eliphalet Jr., carried on, but 23 years after the Civil War Marcellus Hartley bought control of the company, and his grandson Marcellus Hartley Dodge is now its chairman. Remington first developed the hammerless, solid-breech, repeating shotgun and the hammerless unloading shotgun, introduced the paper...
Savage Arms Corp., which has expanded into such by-products as washing machines, refrigerators, has also expanded in its principal business. Its most notable acquisition came last year with the purchase of A. H. Fox Gun Co. of Philadelphia, famed for high-grade shotguns. Savage also holds U. S. rights to the Lewis Machine Gun and the patents for the Driggs-Schroeder gun, used in the Army and Navy. This year the company has lost money, fortnight ago it passed its dividend...
Colt's Patent Fire Arms Manufacturing Co. makes such peaceful things these days as fuses, washers, buttons, switches, dish-washing machines, but still makes the pistol once famed as Judge Colt, advertised now as "the World's right arm." It also turns out the Thompson Sub-Machine Gun, used by many a police department. A submachine gun can fire 300 shots a minute, costs $175 to $200. Last year Colt earned $103,000 against...
Parker Bros. is located in Meriden, Conn., hometown of Rosa Ponselle. The company turns out a double-barreled shotgun called Old Reliable, by many sportsmen regarded as the best U. S. gun. Craftsmanship is high in the Parker Bros, factory, production is limited in proportion to skilled workers available. The entire output is sold at the beginning of the year. Old Reliable costs from $55 to $1,500. Fox shotguns (see above) range from...