Word: rapider
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...inventor of the new rifle is John C. Garand, for many years an employee of the Springfield Arsenal. A War Department memorandum spoke of Mr. Garand's weapon as one that had possibilities for " rapid, accurate and sustained firing from the shoulder, though being at the same time a light, portable gun which can be carried without fatigue by the individual soldier...
...election of Mr. Ford . . . would mark the beginning of a rapid degeneration in our government . . . What makes him impossible as a candidate ... is that he lacks any sense of his limitations ... If a man is both ignorant and ignorant of his ignorance he is not one to put in any place of responsibility...
...Cabinet headed by Mustowfi-el-Mamalek resigned. United States and British interests are concerned over the political situation, of which the chief aspect is the rapid rise of the Radical Party. The alleged fall of the Cabinet was due to incompetency. Only one member of the Cabinet is said to have had any knowledge of the country's affairs-the Sardar Sepah, Minister of War-a post he also held in the preceding Cabinet under Mushir-ed-Dowleh...
...automatic, rapid-firing cannon, of 1.5 inch caliber, capable of firing...
...gunsmith in the Civil War period. John M. made his first gun at 13, of scrap iron in his father's shop. He patented his breech-loading rifle in 1879, a repeating rifle in 1884, and a box magazine in 1895. He holds in all 132 patents on rapid-fire weapons of all sizes, many of which are manufactured by the Winchester and Colt companies. His automatic guns have been adopted by several European governments, and both his heavy and light machine-guns were officially adopted by the U. S. ordinance department in 1918. The heavy gun weighs...