Word: gunness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hospital. Near Summit, Ga., an hour's ride from Tattnall, Dick Gallogly and his bride left mother and guards on the roadside, fled in the car for a delayed honeymoon. Two and a half hours later the two guards reported that Dick Gallogly had pulled a gun, forced them to leave the car, ignored his mother's warning: "I think this is the most foolish thing you ever did." Authorities held "on suspicion" the family-hired guard, suspected that the bride supplied the gun...
Remembering from "last time" the futility of trying to charge against a machine gun, Captain Liddell Hart lays down the axiom that in modern warfare the defense has a great advantage over the attack: no attack succeeds unless the attackers secure surprise or have at least a 3-to-1 preponderance over the attacked. This does not mean merely in men (in the last war some attacks failed with a 16-to-1 preponderance in men), but in fire power. Says...
Next Nazi victim to mock Winston Churchill was the British Booth freighter Clement, sunk between New York and Brazil in the South Atlantic by a "sea raider." And down went the Swedish steamer Gun, torpedoed off Jutland...
...Consul General William M. Cramp remained in Warsaw as he had in Addis Ababa three years ago, when he and his assistants turned away Ethiopian marauders with machine-gun fire, saving U. S. lives and State documents. When the Nazis besieged Warsaw, 136 U. S. citizens of Polish extraction took refuge at the embassy. Asked how long he would stay, Consul General Cramp replied: "Until 136 U. S. citizens are able to leave Warsaw...
Because of its importance in tremors arising from explosions, the new wave is expected to play a considerable part in proposed uses of the seismograph in army artillery observation, for the location of heavy enemy guns, and also for computation by a gun crew of their accuracy of fire. Both the discharge of a cannon and the explosion of a shell set up vibrations underground which can be traced by earthquake instruments...