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...house special" is soda pop, and the custom-built cars that haul the marauding hoods around are driven by pedal power. Lots of people get rubbed out in the gangland power struggle, but nobody dies. The splurge tommy guns, designed with the help of a gunsmith, shoot a substance that looks like deliquescent marshmallow. If anyone is hit by a fusillade of splurge-or, alternatively, with a custard pie in the kisser-their passing is denoted simply and rather sweetly by a frame freeze of their plastered visage. Ultimately, though, pies and even splurge become harmless in a raucous grand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Little Caesars in Never-Never Land | 9/6/1976 | See Source »

...Gunsmith Gilbert Forbes, proprietor of The Sign of the Sportsman at 18 Broad Way, admitted receiving Tryon's money through Matthews and sending one shipment of 20 guns to the British. He claimed, however, that nearly half the guns had been defective and that the real purpose of the money had been to recruit Continental soldiers to the British cause...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPIES: For Two Shillings | 7/4/1976 | See Source »

...Reason for Panic. As it happened, however, last week's closing was marked by little more than nostalgia for such items from armory history as the superbly tooled 1903 Springfield .30 calibre rifle of World War I and the semiautomatic M-1 with which Springfield Master Gunsmith John C. Garand revolutionized infantry firepower in World War II. There was no reason for panic; Springfield no sooner ceased to be Government property than it was transformed into an industrial park and school campus that should keep the city's economy flourishing. More significantly, while phased-out military facilities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Development: A Healthy Kick in the Pants | 5/10/1968 | See Source »

GUNSMOKE (CBS, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). A young gunsmith from the East, Newly O'Brien (Buck Taylor), moves to Dodge City, but en route is abducted by a border cutthroat (John Saxon) who thinks O'Brien is a doctor. Marshal Dillon rescues him and brings him to town, where he becomes a regular and adds youth to the cast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Nov. 3, 1967 | 11/3/1967 | See Source »

...equally important in building the American economic system; the interchangeable part, basis of all mass production, was invented because a Yankee engineer named Eli Whitney refused to accede to the European notion that even a rifle was an individual creation that could only be handcrafted by a skilled gunsmith. Later, in its relations with the rest of the world, the ever more powerful U.S. had to abandon both the Machiavellian tradition of old Europe and its own tradition of isolation; only a nation uninhibited by conventional thinking could have conceived the Marshall Plan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: On Tradition, Or What is Left of It | 4/22/1966 | See Source »

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