Word: mm
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Manhattan camera stores last week were taking advance orders for rental of 16-mm. newsreels of the entire Coronation for home projectors at 50?-$1 a reel, $1-$2.50 with sound...
...Hispano-Suiza motcur canon (TIME, Jan. 11 and March 8) which taxed the credulity of one of your correspondents, is no novelty in air warfare. Precisely such a weapon, of 37 mm. calibre, was mounted in the shaft of the 300 h.p. Spad supplied to leading French pursuit pilots, back in September, 1918. De Turenne, my escadrille commander, had one. So did foremost French ace Fonck, who on one occasion had fired the canon, was easing away in a power dive to shake off some Fokkers behind him when one of the empty 37 mm. shell cases jammed his stick...
...hastily into the gun in the excitement of a brawl. If the pilot was not to miss with his single shell, he had to climb practically aboard the enemy plane before firing. If the Spanish Loyalists insist on World War ordnance, they might be better pleased with the 11 mm. Vickers-AIaxim machine gun, which heaved incendiary slugs of impressive size in a rapid, reliable manner, even more useful on pedestrians than on hostile pilots, practical in disposing of Spanish natives. GEORGE DOCK...
...July 1914 a French Government loan of 5,700,000,000 present-day francs at 31% was oversubscribed 40 times on the first day. Last week 5,000,000,000 francs of the new loan at 4 1/2 were subscribed within eight hours. Delighted MM. Blum & Auriol four days later offered another 2,500,000,000 chunk of their 10,500,000,000 issue, "the largest peacetime loan in the history of France," and the French Parliament prepared to adjourn over Easter with broad smiles...
...tune of $2,500. for which she played exactly 17 mm. 23 sec. in a General Motors broadcast from Manhattan's Carnegie Hall. Pianist Ruth Slenczynski. 11. was launched last week on another U. S. season. Day before she had arrived from Europe wearing a red scarf and tarn her mother knitted, a grey coat which her father boasted had cost him "nearly $50.''' Declared Father Slenczynski. never reluctant to talk: "I have been her only teacher...