Word: gunning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Four more 8-in.-gun cruisers, bringing the total to the much-disparaged 18, the limit under the Treaty...
...Several experimental 6-in.-gun cruisers, to find out with what type to fill the 73,000 extra tons authorized...
...prompt recommendation. Rear Admiral Mark Lambert Bristol, heavy and stooped new head of the Board, had testified before the Senate committee on ratification: "We do not get parity with Great Britain. . . . We should have maintained the ratio of vessels [with Japan]. ... I do not believe in any 6-in.-gun cruisers." Admiral Bristol is a seadog trained to do diplomatic tricks. Many a time has he maintained U. S. relations with foreign statesmen-as commander of the U. S. Navy base in Wartime England, as U. S. high commissioner in post-War Turkey, as chief of the Asiatic Fleet...
...Aiello left his West Side apartment-house hideout by the front door. Pup-Pup! stuttered a waiting machinegun. He, wild-eyed, slithered into an adjacent courtyard. Puppety-Up-Pup! another gun stammered. Blood oozed; Joe Aiello crumpled down with 57 holes and more than a pound of lead in him. Death had spat from two rented rooms, cunningly chosen for a crossfire. Hundreds of cigaret-butts in each room testified that the gunners had waited long for their prey. Because the trap resembled one which slew Earl ("Hymie") Weiss, another North Side Big Shot, and because that trap was credited...
Birthday. Ahmed Bey Zogu I, King of the Albanians. Date: Oct. 8. Age: 35. Celebration: listening to the roar of 55 Italian warplanes which zoomed down to Tirana to bring a greeting card from Prime Minister Mussolini while a squadron of British destroyers fired a 21-gun salute in the harbor 20 mi. away...