Word: springfields
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Photogrief. In Springfield, lII., a city editor was asked indignantly why there was no picture of the last draft group in his paper, replied sadly that his photographer had been one of the group...
Greeting. In Springfield, Mass., Carl Lagerstrom met an old friend, shook hands so vigorously that he got a compound fracture, developed an infection, died...
...Last week the Army told L. C. Smith & Corona Typewriters, Inc. to stop turning out Springfield rifles and go back to making typewriters. Reason: the Army is now getting enough Garand rifles...
...rifle grenade a handy battle tool. One rifle company in Sicily stopped six enemy tanks with these iron pineapples. In the South Pacific, rifle grenades (used mainly against enemy positions) neatly filled the range between the hand grenade and the 60-mm. mortar. Previously fired only from the old Springfield, the rifle grenade has now been fitted for firing with the Garand and the carbine...
Because of the rubber shortage, Kelly-Springfield, known in Cumberland as "The Kelly," was dawdling along under a, skeleton staff 18 months ago. Then The Kelly leased most of its 1,000,000 sq. ft. of plant to the War Department, contracted to turn out small-arms ammunition on a cost-plus-fixed-fee basis. Shrewd, handsome Kelly President Edmund Sidney Burke handled the conversion to war production. He stored some of the tire-making machinery in plant buildings, to be handy for the reconversion job which would come some day-no one expected it so soon. Kelly...