Word: gunness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Department last year spent $124,500-$96,000 over its appropriation for this purpose-on gunpowder used in salutes to the President and other dignitaries. Paring expenses, the Department last week announced that official salutes henceforth would be fired by inferior powder, thus cutting the cost of a 21-gun salute from $62.37 to $28.35. With cheap powder, according to War Department officials, noise made by salutes will be not "Boom" but "Swoosh...
...year Author Forester caught the attention of a few adventure-minded readers with his fast-moving, lightly-laden Beat to Quarters. That book revolved around a romantic hero, Captain Horatio Hornblower, a shy, dignified, portly British sea dog of Napoleonic times, master of H.M.S. Lydia, who pitted his 36-gun frigate against ships twice as strong. Last fortnight, when he continued Captain Hornblower's story in Ship of the Line, it seemed likely that more readers would hear of Author Forester, and keep a lookout for him hereafter...
...Intelligence, finally tipped them off that Jan. 21, 1938 would be a good day on which to arrest Glading, Williams, Munday and Whomack. They were all caught with highly incriminating papers, according to the Crown, and these included plans for Britain's new super-secret 14-inch naval gun, claimed to be vastly more effective than any other naval weapon of this calibre. Since the Soviet Union is now concentrating on building up the first real Russian navy (TIME, Feb. 28) and is in the market for naval improvements of all sorts, sea-minded Britons have followed the Miss...
...over once-gay Vienna, until hundreds were reported to have taken their lives rather than Nazification. Burly, raspy-voiced Major Emil Fey, Vice Chancellor under Dollfuss and former Vienna commander of the Heimwehr of Prince Ernest von Starhemberg,* shot his wife, his 19-year-old son, then turned the gun on himself. Ruthless suppressor of the incipient Nazis and Socialist workers alike, he momentarily expected "liquidation" after the Nazis came into power...
...Moto, a soft-spoken Japanese with poached-egg eyes and a thorough knowledge of jujitsu, solved some nasty criminal problems. A boxing glove soaked in poison, and a gun with a time device set up under the prize ring and pointed at Mr. Moto's seat all fitted into the pattern of a shady betting deal. Mr. Moto establishes a connection with Charlie by instructing Charlie's collegiate son, Lee Chan (Keye Luke), in a criminology class...