Word: guns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Load of Coal. After the U.S. got into World War II, Symington set out to make gun turrets for U.S. bombers. During the harried months of the switchover at Emerson, with the Air Corps' General "Hap" Arnold calling him up to plead for "just one turret, just one," Symington worked around the clock. When exhaustion dragged at him, he flopped on a cot in his office. When he woke up, often in the middle of the night, he went back to work. General Arnold got turrets aplenty...
...tourist paradise. Off from Florida went a DC-3 loaded with anti-Castro leaflets, which fluttered down upon the Cuban capital. Fidel Castro, shaken by a key defection in his rebel army that same day, and reports that terrorists were at work, filled the air with machine gun and 40-mm. antiaircraft fire. The wild evening of gunplay killed two Cubans and wounded 48. After that, in frenzied need of a scapegoat, he inevitably launched a TV tirade against the U.S., charging that Havana had been bombed. He had to reach back in history to find a match...
...Texas (5-0)-pro /ed it is the biggest gun in the Southwest by edging unbeaten Arkansas...
Taffy 3's situation was desperate: its six little carriers (each with a single 5-in. gun), three destroyers and four destroyer escorts made no match for Kurita. All "Ziggy" Sprague could do was to make smoke, launch his aircraft and run for his life. In the running fight, Kurita lost three heavy cruisers, one light cruiser, and three destroyers. But Sprague lost two destroyers, a destroyer escort, one baby flattop (another, the St. Lo, was sunk later by a Japanese kamikaze). He took hits on two carriers, a destroyer and destroyer escort and seemed doomed to far worse...
...private detective runs second to only one competitor in the race for ratings. So far, in a season riddled with old scandals and new specials, the Cowpoke is still top draw, but the Eye has impressive fire power, and by year's end he may well be top gun. The TV tally sheet already lists 62 shows (network and syndicated) devoted to some variation of Cops & Robbers. Police detectives practice their profession on the networks only a few hours a week; it is the civilian shamus who lays down by far the heaviest barrage. At least...