Word: mortars
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Mortar Trouble. One of the loudest snaps was touched off by letters from two combat veterans, ripping into the Chemical Warfare Service's highly touted 4.2 mortars. C.W.S.'s Major General Alden
Superior Cushion. Another minor incident made a familiar crackle. When Murray Garsson's son Captain Joseph H. Garsson-of the Chemical Warfare Service, of course-was court-martialed and convicted for refusing to obey an order to emplace his 4.2 mortar company on the battlefield, it was Andy May who had turned up to lend a helping hand...
When war came the Garrson boys were ready with a good scheme for quick-&-easy profits. With no assets except a borrowed letterhead they established the Erie Basin Metal Products Co. Then they grabbed a $3,000,000 contract from the Chemical Warfare Service to produce mortar shells, and went to town...
There was the customary pre-dawn prelude of machine-gun and mortar fire. Then troops from the capital garrison at Asunción moved in. In no time at all, as revolutions go, Army strongman Lieut. Colonel Benítez Vera had fled from his Campo Grande headquarters. Box score: five killed, scores wounded. By noon, as the official communiqué said, "absolute tranquillity" again reigned over Paraguay...
...Joseph R. Sizoo did not want a new church. Sizzled Sizoo: "It is putting thq dollar sign before the cross! I'm not defending brick and mortar. The issue is not, shall St. Nicholas Church be moved - but rather: shall religion retreat!" Dr. Sizoo called his parishioners to a "day of prayer for intercession," took to the air to denounce "the rising tides of secularism." He charged that part of the consistory (33 ministers, deacons and elders) had succumbed to "the lure of material things." "I am reminded," he added, "of what a distinguished Boston judge said when...