Word: gunning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...planes zoomed overhead, Herr Hitler obligingly showed his princely guests how lucky it is to be Germany's friend. He underlined his point with a two-and-one-half-hour military review, made princely eyes bug out with three new 25-ton tanks, mounting one 75-mm. gun, one 37-mm. gun, three machine guns. Carped critics: three-quarters of the parade was motorized but only 20% of the German Army is. Observers thought Prince Paul was less likely to quibble about percentages...
...business-U. S. armament-does not swing with the ordinary cycles of depression, is bringing Baldwin Locomotive as close to the black as it can come when U. S. railroads are deep in the red. For Midvale is a specialist in pressing armor plate and forging heavy gun barrels from high-grade steel...
...operated 1,000,000 acres in Texas, New Mexico and Colorado, once scolded President Theodore Roosevelt: "You said you'd give me 20 minutes and you've done all the talking. Now you'll keep your word and listen to me." Cattleman Mackenzie never carried a gun. Said he: "I'm too big to do any gunfighting. Nobody could possibly miss me." His biggest triumph: the 1906 Hepburn Act, which brought cattlemen fixed interstate freight rates...
...rainy and cold, people were singing a sprightly song called Bel Ami, crowding Hitler's favorite show, Melody in the Night (although Miriam Verne, U. S. dancer who caught Hitler's eye, had gone to Munich to play The Merry Widow). The Rhine suddenly rose, flooded machine-gun nests, concrete pillboxes and subterranean construction on Germany's great western fortifications. In the midst of spring fervor, Nazi health authorities publicized an unbelievable figure: 75% of all young men between 20 and 29, they said, proved, when examined for military purposes, jobs, or party membership, to be suffering...
What took place in Manitoba Parliament Building was a newspaperman's nightmare-the awful thing that sometimes happens to newspapers that jump the gun. As Governor Stassen and his lady stepped into line to do their handshaking, a guard tapped the Governor on the shoulder, asked him to step aside. The Governor, his face as red as his hair, handed the guard a card. The guard sent it to Manitoba's Premier John Bracken, who was standing beside the King and Queen. Before the card reached the premier an aide took it, gave it one glance, laid...