Word: oerlikons
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Dates: during 1941-1941
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...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...