Word: gunning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...China today against Japan: a fat loan from the West to the Nanking Government of harassed, high-strung little Chinese Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek. Last week Japanese officials were nervous as cats lest such a loan result from the visit to China of the Paitish Treasury's biggest mobile gun, Sir Frederick Leith-Ross. bland Chief Economic Adviser to His Majesty's Exchequer, who is steaming this week toward the Far East...
...dullest and most irresponsible millionaire could see that, unless he started passing on his capital under the present estate and gift taxes, his heirs would get considerably less than he intended under the revenue rates soon to be enacted by Congress. How many wealthy taxpayers began to "beat the gun," as President Roosevelt called it last fortnight, no man outside the Treasury knows for sure, but last week the public was given a clue. The Securities & Exchange Commission, which collects and publishes data on the stock transactions of corporation officials, reported gifts of securities made by such officials from March...
...list, however, gave no conclusive evidence that the President's tax message had started a great gun-beating stampede among the U. S. wealthy. The biggest gifts reported for the four-month period were made before his message: In March John D. Rockefeller Jr. gave away 85,000 shares of Socony-Vacuum Oil valued at $1,090,000; in May Charles S. Woolworth, 20,000 shares of F. W. Woolworth valued at $1,200,000; Frederick B. Rentschler, 20,000 shares of United Aircraft valued at $270,000; Samuel Zemurray, 1,500 shares of United Fruit valued...
...more than three shells in a gun, and no gun larger than 10-gauge...
Asked a reporter: "Could this device be used to point a gun?'' Replied the officer: "Draw your own conclusions." It was generally understood that this latest military secret works by means of infra-red radiation. Emitted by ships and all other objects, this radiation occupies a place on the spectrum between visible light and radio waves, pierces much farther than light does through fog and haze...