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...Over Popguns. To the trade a "popgun" mill is a tiny sawmill largely supplied, and often run, by farmers and small-towners in their spare time. There are, according to the U.S. Forest Service, some 32,000 of these popgun mills in the U.S. but only a fraction of them now produce any lumber to speak of. For they are too small to be assured of any market in the midst of huge orders centrally placed, or to be able to cope with Federal regulations limiting prices, shipments...
...this record Scripps-Howard's astute Columnist Raymond Clapper found little to praise. "So far as the British are concerned," said he, "ours still is a popgun arsenal." Of the President's report, Clapper wrote: "The figures ... are large. In terms of deliveries they shrink like a pair of wool socks in the laundry. . . . For a time, 25% of the eggs we sent arrived in England unfit to eat. . . . Children are not receiving the milk their bodies need. . . . Shipments to the British Empire in July of last year were . . . more than those of July this year...
...verbal bullets that tore the air in the Roosevelt-Taft-Wilson campaign made 1940's pot shots sound like popgun plips...
...some Republicans last week that at last they had an Issue. For seven years, while the New Deal juggernaut squnched over the political battlefield, the G. O. P. had vainly whipped up little issues, had vainly sought an issue that would stand up under fire. The G. O. P. popgun fusillade was futile, their cannons fired only blanks, their bombers dropped duds or boomerangs...
...real death ray is the 19-million-volt stream of subatomic particles produced at the University of California by Ernest Orlando Lawrence's giant new cyclotron. This 225-ton machine, whose operators shield themselves by water-tank barricades, can kill white mice and destroy cancer cells at popgun range. Installed in a front-line trench it would have less effect on an enemy soldier at 50 feet than one well-aimed rifle bullet...