Word: gunness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bloomington, Ind., three years ago, little Clifford Cain playfully pointed his father's gun at his mother, pulled the trigger, shot her dead. Last week, as 8-year-old Clifford and his brother Robert, 10, were playing with the same gun, Robert playfully shot Clifford dead...
...crude oil and natural gas in Oklahoma, Texas, Kansas and California. Last year it had a neat net of $905,849.89 on a total gross operating income of $5,743,420.37. It now wants to expand, at the same time retire some bank loans. But, like many another gun-shy firm today, it distrusts the standard form of bond issue, which can cause such a crisis as that now afflicting the B. & O. railroad by maturing during depressed times (see p, 62). So last week Sunray Oil filed with SEC registration for what it believed to be a new type...
...foreign military attachés and the Regent suddenly spied in the hurrying military parade four specimens of a completely new heavy mobile gun. Each gun appeared to have a crew of about 40 and sped past in five sections, each rolling on rubber tires and pulled by a heavy tractor. First section, the gun carriage; second, the gun cradle; third, the immense recoil and recuperator gear; fourth, incidental equipment of the gun; and fifth, the gun barrel which appeared to be some 45 feet long with a calibre of ten inches. A retired naval officer of a Great Power...
...gun came to the "Grand" in a $20,000 private railroad car. Others came in trailers, camped behind the clubhouse. A doctor commuted from Cincinnati by plane. The week's 15 events offered $50,000 in prizes. In the Grand American Handicap, big prize event of the meet, there were no favorites, for a 14-year-old tyro, shooting from the 16-yd. line, had as good a chance to win as a top-flight marksman shooting from the 25-yd. line. Solidest tradition of the 39-year-old trapshooting classic is that an "unknown from nowhere" usually wins...
...Tamiroff's blackhearted Russians were surprised poaching somebody else's fish trap, they were lynched. When Akim Tamiroff's insults became too much for a man to bear, Henry Fonda got into his fishing boat, went out on the bay looking for Akim with a harpoon gun. When Henry's faithful friend George Raft decided to immolate himself to atone for his evil ways, he steered Akim's schooner into the side of a glacier, where it was crunched beneath icebergs like a toy boat in a studio tank. Even more characteristic of Western traditions...