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...little eight-landing-craft task force then withdrew and waited for the time fuses to work. The 85-pound charge went off like a popgun. It was disappointing. Then the "battleship" really erupted. A flat piece of steel, blew up like wastepaper in a column of grey smoke. Concrete chunks showered the water for hundreds of yards around. From a hole on top, reinforcing steel pieces stuck up like pitchfork prongs. Smoke poured out of everywhere-from the sallyports, vents, turrets. If the concussion didn't kill the Japs, Colonel Soule (promoted to brigadier general the next...
June Bugs and Generators. Tesla had the fictional earmarks of genius. He was humbly born (in a Croatian village now part of Yugoslavia) of a preacher father and illiterate mother who loved to invent household gadgets. Nikola invented a popgun and a water wheel at five; a 16-bug-power motor (operated by June bugs glued to the arms of a tiny windmill) at nine; a "vacuum motor" at twelve; his famed alternating current generator at 25. This came to him while he was reciting Goethe's Faust one day in a Budapest park; he promptly diagrammed...
...that dinky pistol carried by General George Marshall on his visit to the Normandy beachhead is a Service model .45-caliber automatic, then my bazooka is a popgun...
...George Marshall's super-popgun is a 9-mm. corto (short) Italian-made Beretta automatic. As a weapon it is nothing special, but the General likes...
...this the Forest Service replied that the little fellow subtracted nothing from the big producer, since popgun production involved part-time work by people who would not man the big mills anyway. Besides, popguns might add as much as six billion board feet to the total U.S. lumber supply...