Word: hough
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Angeles ghetto of Watts went berserk in 1965 after an unemployed high school dropout named Marquette Frye was arrested for drunken driving. In six days of rioting, 35 died, 900 were injured. In 1966, the Cleveland ghetto of Hough erupted when a white bartender denied a glass of ice water to a Negro patron. And in Newark, N.J., a trumpet-playing Negro cab driver by the name of John Smith last week became the random spark that ignited the latest-and one of the most violent-of U.S. race riots...
...immediate cause made the Newark outburst particularly terrifying. It seemed to say that a dozen or so people could be killed in almost any city, any night, by the purest chance. In the past three years, racial riots have flared in some 50 U.S. cities, from Harlem to Hough, Chicago to Cincinnati, Boston to Buffalo, Watts to Waukegan. Most began with a vagrant spark, and often it takes nothing more than that...
...began to experiment with new propellants in 1951 in an effort to reduce the weight of cartridges. By 1961, Van Langenhoven had produced a derivative of nitrocellulose that could be ignited by a jet of hot air and that actually eliminated the need for a cartridge. Daisy President Cass Hough got wind of Van Langenhoven's experiments and flew over to Paris for a demonstration in an instrumented firing range near the Champs Elysées. Using a modified air rifle and pellets wadded with cottonlike propellant, the 6-ft. 3-in. Belgian squeezed off shots whose velocity...
...Hough hired Van Langenhoven and moved him to Daisy's home plant in Rogers, Ark., where the chemist concentrated on perfecting a solid propellant while the company's engineers were designing air rifles capable of using it efficiently. After five years, their combined efforts produced a weapon of classic simplicity. The V-L (for Van Langenhoven) bullet consists merely of a cylindrical plug of solid propellant attached to the rear of a slug or missile. When the trigger of a V-L rifle is pulled, a powerful spring drives a cocked plunger into a cylinder, compressing and heating...
...doing away with trouble-prone extraction and ejection devices, says Hough, the V-L system "eliminates a lot of your hardware and a lot of potential malfunction problems." Further, instead of giving the lead slug a "punch," as the powder-filled cartridge does, the propellant gives it a "shove," reducing both recoil and noise...