Word: salvoes
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...Well, it's like this," answered Irven Travis, young Moore School instructor who designed the machine. "Suppose you're firing a salvo from a battleship...
...last week General Hugh S. Johnson was well launched in print on the series of articles he started to write for the Saturday Evening Post the moment President Roosevelt accepted his resignation as NRAdministrator. In an impatient opening salvo last fortnight the redoubtable General raked the whole New Deal front, advising President Roosevelt to alter or reverse his fiscal, monetary, tax, labor, industrial, relief, agricultural, foreign trade and recovery policies. "I firmly believe" wrote he, "that, if steps were taken tomorrow to put the monetary and borrowing policy of the Federal Government beyond the shadow of doubt, this depression would...
...Princeton men rioted three days because chapel prayers were too long, got them cut by one-third. Last week the Daily Princetonian reported that Princeton men now rudely talk, read newspapers, play tick-tack-toe and salvo during Sunday services in their new $2,000,000 chapel. Excitedly launched was a campaign against "forced, hypocritical and disinterested'' chapel attendance, compulsory every other Sunday...
...called "Austrian Legion" of Nazis who have escaped from Austria but intend to dash back for a coup at the first favorable moment. For days von Papen was reported bickering with Hitler over the Legion. Then the big guns of the German Ministry of Propaganda & Public Enlightenment fired a salvo of announcements that the Austrian Legion had been dissolved, added touching details of how its former members were hungrily looking for work...
...France's turn next. By denouncing commercial treaties between France and Britain signed in 1882 and 1926 she fired a mighty salvo which, however, will not hit its target until three months hence. Long have these particular treaties been under attack by French shipping interests, as they gave Britain marked advantages in carrying freight between France and her colonies...