Word: reloader
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Committee clerk. As they approached the little monorail, open-top trolley that trundles Senators to the Capitol, a shot split the air. Bricker and Macomber whirled. About 15 steps behind them, they saw a grey, sharp-faced little man frantically breaking open a smoking, single-shot target pistol to reload...
When war burst over Europe's dam in 1939 many a wishful-thinking strategist offered a simple, temporarily sensible formula: let Allied planes load up in France, drop their bombs on Germany, land in Poland, reload, shuttle back to France...
...tube houses a powerful steel spring which takes up the recoil, re-cocks itself and operates the firing pin for the next shot. In combat the 33-lb. Piat is handled by a two-man team, one to aim and fire, the other to haul ammunition and reload...
...board assumed that "troops have landed through heavy surf sufficient to break completely over men and equipment, and immediately engage in combat on a sandy beach." Results: both Garands failed to operate as semi-automatic rifles (i.e., reload automatically after each round). One failed completely and the firer had to hammer the bolt with a mallet; "the other operated by hand with extreme difficulty." The Springfields continued to work, with slight difficulty. On these salt water tests, the Garand was rated last, the Springfield first. (See pictures of how bullets are made...
...capital goods industries from their ten-year sleep. But this awakening has also generated new national income, caused a major revival in nonDefense, consumer industries as well. Item: department store sales for August were 11% above 1939. Item: residential building was 20% above 1939. Item: retailers in general, to reload their emptying shelves, have been in an almost panicky rush to buy everything from underwear to refrigerators. Automobile dealers are no exception...