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...hijacking chase follows to determine whether Moran or Jordan delivers the plans and collects the seventy-five grand. Somehow Jordan winds up employing his shotgun in the service of Uncle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Feb. 15, 1943 | 2/15/1943 | See Source »

...armed guard around its plant. Whereupon Owner Wayne A. Baird grinned at the irate Major, told him to "walk through that door." As Dinwiddie obeyed, Baird pushed a button and every one of Texas Washer's 100-odd workmen dropped his tools, trained a sawed-off shotgun at the startled officer. "Just double duty," said Baird. "Every employe his own guard, and they all can shoot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Double Feature in Houston | 2/15/1943 | See Source »

...would be sheer nonsense-ignorant, dangerous nonsense-to talk about grants of full government to many of the dependent territories for some time to come. In these instances it would be like giving a child of ten a latchkey, a bank account and a shotgun...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Empire or Commonwealth? | 1/25/1943 | See Source »

Since June 1940, every British family has kept its shotgun and poker, pitchfork and flatiron ready to use against invaders whenever the church bells rang. This week the bells broke their long silence. Over tattered city streets, shining holly hedgerows, silvering fields and the camouflaged tin huts of army encampments the rolling echoed, celebrating with propriety victory in Egypt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Peacetime Clamor | 11/23/1942 | See Source »

...peasant showed Edouard a sawed-off shotgun buried in the Galle barn, and Edouard soon began to wonder whether one of the family had not committed the murder. It could not be Andre; it could not be Daughter Franchise. But what about Son Blaise who insulted Edouard at every turn? Or his Communist buddy Maurice, who worked in the Galle house and had once murdered an enemy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: After Escape | 11/16/1942 | See Source »

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