Word: gunness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...feet in 1937 and his head in 1837." Cried Homer Martin: "We'll say 'Henry, if you want to continue to make and sell autos in America, you'd better get ready to put a union label on those Fords.' " But the biggest oratorical gun was fired by John L. Lewis, who arrived in time to give his personal blessing to the Ford drive...
...White Band of Death"), swept the first Chinese aside, pushed on towards what they thought was the second defense line of the Chinese. As soon as they reached it, hidden mines were exploded and those Japanese who were not blown to bits were wiped out by sheets of machine-gun fire...
...limousines sped along the road from Nanking to Shanghai. A Union Jack fastened to the radiator of each car was whipped smartly by the breeze. Without warning, about 50 miles from Shanghai, a Japanese plane zoomed down to within 20 yards of the first car, riddled it with machine-gun fire. The driver. Colonel W. A. Lovat-Fraser, British Military Attaché, stopped. Slumped in the back seat, with blood gushing from his middle was 51-year-old, baldish Sir Hughe Montgomery ("Snatch") Knatchbull-Hugesson, Britain's Ambassador to China, one of her smartest & youngest diplomats. His back...
WHILST TWO GREAT PEOPLES FLY AT EACH OTHER'S THROATS. . . . Seven thousand miles away Chinamen are dying. Seven thousand miles away Japs are lying on hospital cots-their broken bodies wracked with torture from shrapnel fragments and machine gun lead...
...hearted Basques, Santandrians and Asturians remain to defend the city against Franco's 60,000 Moors, Foreign Legionnaires, Italians; 2) successfully over the Cantabrian Mountains, the three Rightist columns can coast down the sloping hills into Santander; 3) no "iron ring" protects the city, only ill-concealed machine-gun nests on the hillsides, a few straggly strands of barbed wire...