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...another drawing a wife is lounging on a chaise longue in her boudoir. She has mounted a shotgun on the tops of two chairs, run a cord from the trigger to the door so that whoever opens the door will shoot himself. Says the wife: "It's not locked, Honey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Art of Lunacy | 11/9/1942 | See Source »

...doused duckhunting yet. Shotgun shells weren't short or rationed (despite WPB freezing of all 12-gauge shells for aerial-gunnery training, war-plant protection and riot squads). Not all coastal marshes and inland waters were restricted. And most comforting of all, the Government is counting on the sportsman's annual 54,000,000-lb. bag of waterfowl and small game to help fill the U.S. dinner plate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Goose Hangs Back | 11/2/1942 | See Source »

Next fall may be the last good bird and duck hunting season for the duration. Reasons : 1) gunmakers are too swamped with war orders to spare time for sporting arms; 2) the government is taking all new twelve-gauge shotgun shells (most popular size) for aerial gunnery training,-war-plant guards and the police (riot guns). Plenty of ammunition is in stock for this year's expected civilian demand, but there will be little left over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Wing Shots | 8/10/1942 | See Source »

...multiple projector for use against tanks. It fires 20 to 30 rocket shells at once. Tanks which cross its pattern of fire are in somewhat the same fix as a rabbit in front of a double-barreled shotgun...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Rocket Bombs | 6/29/1942 | See Source »

...trucks full of furniture stopped just short of the deadline. Negroes gathered on the west side of Ryan Rd., scowling. Tempers mounted. A Negro armed with a shotgun stamped out on his front porch and exhorted his colleagues to march through. A news photographer tried to take his picture, but another Negro smacked him down in the snow. Young Negroes cracked up concrete blocks into pieces of nice throwing size. Bricks felled a cop, hit a white woman. Negroes tried to drive one truck through the line. The white men swarmed forward. Mounted cops had to use tear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Two Sides of a Street | 3/9/1942 | See Source »

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