Word: gunness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dream house" is coming along. The fieldstone walls were all up, the roof was going on. Secret Service men looked skeptical when the President declared that in his new hideaway there would be no telephone, no radio, no guards except an electric eye to fire a gun if any intruder came too close...
Pilot Woods calculated his landing perfectly. The only thing he did not calculate correctly was the intention of the Japanese. The Japanese dived again & again, spraying the downed plane with machine-gun bullets. The transport's crew and passengers went overboard into the river and the Japanese planes fired on them in the water, continuing the work of extermination. Pilot Woods was carried away by a swift current and reached shore in safety. Radio Operator Joe Loh and a passenger, Chinese Civil Servant C. N. Lou, with a bullet in his neck, also escaped. Two days later, while...
Governor Johnston is South Carolina newer-style-a husky Sergeant of Engineers who went through college after the War, drove to the top in politics with energy that sometimes gets him in trouble. Candidate Brown, quiet, efficient, lawyerlike, would not let voters forget the time "Machine Gun" Johnston called out the militia to drive able Chief Highway Commissioner Ben Sawyer out of office, only to have the State Supreme Court uphold Mr. Sawyer. Both Candidates Johnston and Brown proudly recall that they worked in cotton mills as boys - a good political start in a State where textile workers vote...
...fighting. Motorized field artillery (still largely the World War French 75s, improved to give faster fire and greater range) rolled into place behind motorized infantrymen, who made long marches by truck. New mortars arched shells into supposed enemy lines with an accuracy never approached in 1918. "Silhouette" machine-gun units went into battle firing from low-slung trucks. Some of the army's 283 light tanks tried out against new anti-tank guns which can supposedly stop any tank within range...
...Cincinnati, a fleeing thug boarded the automobile of 45-year-old Chinese Fred Wong, told him to step on it. Wong would not go against a red light, though the burglar beat him with the butt of his gun. Police captured the wrongdoer, congratulated Wong. Wong said sheepishly: "I was afraid of being arrested for crashing a light...