Word: gunsight
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Dates: during 1923-1923
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...Inventor of the catapult idea of launching airplanes from shipboard, he was also the first pilot to be launched in this manner. As first Commander of the Aircraft Squadrons of the Fleet, he perfected means of spotting gunfire by airplane. Together with Admiral Bradley Fiske, he perfected the telescopic gunsight now used throughout the world...
...scene was worthy of Zane Grey or the author of "Gunsight Pass"; thousands driven down into the subways for safety, fences broken down and traffic held up in every direction, and all twelve of the Cambridge police force functioning as cowboys, armed with lassoes and lying in wait behind mail-boxes...