Word: harrington
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Edward Joseph Harrington O'Brien, 50, expatriate Boston poet and critic, editor since 1915 of the authoritative annual Best Short Stories and, since 1921, of the Best British Short Stories; in Gerrards Cross, Bucks, England...
Last week a new submachine gun that looked like the answer to the speed problem began coming in quantity from the Harrington & Richardson Arms Co. plant at Worcester, Mass. The new gun weighs only six and a half pounds (to the Tommy's ten), fires 200 shots a minute. Its biggest feature: it has only three moving parts, is designed to be mass-produced at about $50 (Tommies cost...
None of the parts requires special machinery; even the bolts could be made in carload lots by any first-class machine shop. Blurted an Army sergeant who fired the gun, "Good God, it's so simple I could manufacture it myself." Harrington & Richardson bragged that it would produce 500 a day by next month, 1,000 a day by April. The U. S. Army made no commitments, but Army Ordnance predicted that the new gun "will play no small part in military events of the future...
...John T. Harrington '42 was elected to the Business Board...
...Angeles, Calif.; Llonel J. Friedman '43, Cleveland, O.; Maurice S. Friedman '43, Tulsa, Okia.; Thomas B. A. Godfrey '42, Ardmore, Pa.; John S. Graettinger '43, Ontario, Calif.; Norman N. Griffith '42, Portland, Ore.; George J. Grindle '42, Washington, D. C.; Frederick J. Harrlgan '42, Lisbon, N. H.; John T. Harrington '42, Madison, Wiz.; Robert D. Hill '42, Wilmore, Ky.; Howard P. K. Hoddick '43, Alexandria, Va.; John W. Hursh '42, Cloquet, Minn.; Humphrey G. Hutchinson '41, Knoxville, Tenn.; Robert H. Ingram '42, Alameda, Calif.; Scott R. Inkley '43, South Euclid...