Word: mauser
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...voracious mammals have been eating too much of the depleted whitefish and salmon stocks in North Atlantic waters. The government's Scottish Office, with headquarters in Edinburgh, agreed with the fishermen that the seal herd must be thinned out. It called on the Norwegians, armed with 7.62 mm Mauser rifles and 4-ft. pickax bludgeons known as hakapiks, to dispatch 900 mother seals and 1,700 fluffy white pups in the first phase of the culling program. Local hunters have been licensed to kill 3,200 more pups...
...Japanese shun guns, they adore models of the real thing. Last year model-gun manufacturers turned out a $25 million arsenal of 600,000 ersatz weapons, among them exact replicas of the Luger PO8, the Walther P38 and the Mauser Military 7.63 mm. According to law, all barrels of metal models were colored yellow or white so as to discourage holdup men from fooling the public...
...received at least $10 million for West Germany's purchase of 900 F-104 Starfighters in 1961. The party and its leader denied the allegations, and Strauss filed a slander suit against Hauser. The quarrel ended what was left of a longstanding friendship that went back to Mauser's days as a U.S. Army intelligence officer during the postwar occupation of Germany. Hauser had helped Strauss get his start in local Bavarian politics, and Strauss repaid him years later when, as Defense Minister, he asked Lockheed to put Hauser on the payroll. Since Hauser's allegations were...
...Davis' pressure-cooked dispatches from Cuba, for example, were clearly calculated to inflame U.S. opinion and trigger the Spanish-American War that Davis' boss, William Randolph Hearst, wanted. During the Boer War, the 25-year-old correspondent of London's Morning Post, Winston Churchill, carried a Mauser pistol and played soldier. Twelve years later, as First Lord of the Admiralty, he was part of Britain's censorship and propaganda machine...