Word: gunness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Wingshooting, Cont." (Letters, Dec. 30, p. 4). "The gun is aimed directly at the object in flight, firing as the barrel is moving with the bird." Wrong and right. It is necessary to both lead and follow through, or the duck supper will be a pork roast...
Example: Duck traveling 50 m.p.h. 50 yds. from muzzle of gun. Shot charge at 900 ft. per sec. requires 1/6 sec. to travel 50 yds. Duck at 50 m.p.h. travels 264,000 ft. per hr.-73 1/3 ft. per sec. or 12 2/9 ft. in 1/6 sec. If you shoot directly at him you are mathematically certain to miss him 122/9...
Almost as foggy as Narragansett Bay fortnight ago when Coast Guard launch 290 sprayed the Black Duck with machine gun fire, killing three of her four occupants, were the facts of this latest episode in Federal liquor suppression. Agreed: the Black Duck was a rumrunner with 500 cases aboard; her stern was peppered with bullets from C. G. 290. Coast Guard claim: a siren first warned the Black Duck to stop; she tried to escape; a one-pound shot failed to halt her; machine gun fire was a last resort; the Black Duck either veered her course or rose...
...worked with faces bare and bland. They acquired some $5,000 worth of cash and jewelry and several firearms. They met no resistance at all from Police Detective Arthur C. Johnson, an imposing fellow who had held that position for 17 years and thrice been recommended for bravery. His gun was one of those taken away by the hold...
Patrolman Johnson testified that a few hours after the gunmen had escaped with their booty, Magistrate Vitale had called him into his office in the Tepicano Democratic Club nearby and there returned his revolver. He said he had asked the magistrate where he had procured the gun, where it had come from, and that the magistrate had replied: "I cannot tell you. . . I do not know...