Word: oerlikons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Navy orders for marine engines back in 1939, British orders for Rolls-Royce aircraft engines a year later. Soon other independents were in the grab bag too. Nash now makes airplane propellers and engine parts, will soon turn out giant flying boats way down in New Orleans; Hudson, new Oerlikon anti-aircraft guns and Naval ordnance goods; Studebaker, trucks and aircraft engines; Willys, jeeps and other items. The independents have more than $1,000,000,000 in war orders...
...York, they snared Antoine Gazda, Austrian-born inventor, who holds the U.S. rights to Switzerland's Oerlikon cannon, now being manufactured in Providence for the U.S. Navy. At Roosevelt Field Inn on Long Island, county police arrested Baroness Lisette von Kapri, a civilian flyer, born in Rumania, who for the past year has been friendly with student pilots at Roosevelt Field. In Alexandria, Va., the prize was pink-cheeked Kurt Sell, Washington correspondent for Germany's official DNB news agency...
...little $20,000,000 job, consisting of 15 enormous buildings completed in seven months on a 140-acre tract at Centerline (on Detroit's outskirts). Managed by Hudson Motor Car Co., it will turn out everything in the small ordnance line, from gun-mount parts to 20-mm. Oerlikon antiaircraft machine guns...
...Navy's newest U.S. antiaircraft gun: the 20-mm. Oerlikon rapid-firer for use against low-flying attacks (cost secret...