Word: oerlikons
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...sound like firecrackers exploding. A 120-ft. ship, bristling with guns, had slipped out of the darkness and was raking the Wing Sang with bullets. "Pirates!" someone cried. Captain Ronald G. Stanton ordered full speed ahead, but when the pirate ship pumped shells into the Wing Sang from two Oerlikon guns, he saw that he could not get away...
...machine is a considerable improvement on similar prewar devices, which were restricted to taking messages of less than 30 seconds. A German invention, it was developed during the war by Ernst Keller, a young ballistics expert for the Swiss company which made the famed Oerlikon antiaircraft gun. He worked out an elaborate system of acoustic relays for translating the instructions given the machine into its robot responses...
About 80 Ipsophones (rented at $35 per month) are now in use by Swiss firms. Last week their manufacturer (Werkzeugmaschinenfabrik Oerlikon), just removed from a blacklist of firms which helped the Nazis, was laying plans to market the Ipsophone throughout the world...
...under any nickname, Penelope* never took an enemy attack lying down. In 24 days of action her own guns fired 35,000 6-in. shells, 6,500 4-in., 20,000 two-pounders and 8,000 20-mm. Oerlikon shells...
...Plastic petroleum, developed by Gulf Oil for business machines, now lubricates the magazines of the Oerlikon 20-mm. rapid-fire gun. Reason: it stays soft, sticks to metal at arctic and tropic temperatures...