Word: springfields
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Pending in Congress last week was a bill to award Rifle Inventor John C. Garand $100,000. Reason: as a civilian employe of the Army's Springfield (Mass.) Armory, Inventor Garand would otherwise get nothing but his $5,400-per-year salary for developing the Army's Garand rifle...
...case, Mr. Garand will hardly fare worse than the fathers of the Army's Springfield rifle, which the Garand is replacing. The Springfield was developed by-two civilian workers: Daniel J. Manning and John L. Murphy. Last fortnight the Congressional Record printed a letter from Daniel Manning's son (Leonard T. Manning of New York City): "All he [Inventor Manning] got from the Government for his 40 years of service and . . . the improved 1903 Springfield rifle was a small pension from the date of his retirement in October 1926 to the time of his death...
Casey's relations with the News have been cordial, except for a bit of trouble some years ago when he was asked to cover an Illinois wolf hunt on an expense account of $10. His itemized list included such expenditures as: "To rent car Chicago to Springfield,1?; gas for same, 1?; oil for same, 5? (it was an oil eater); to rent horse, 1?; hay, 5 mills; to rent glasses to look at wolf, 1?." After worrying the subject for a while, Casey discovered he had spent only $9.90. He polished off the matter by adding: "Wolfbane...
Sergeant York (Warner). Twenty-three years ago a good-natured, redheaded, gangling young hillbilly from Tennessee's Cumberland Mountains joined the Big Parade and headed for Europe with the 82nd Division of the A.E.F. His name was Alvin Cullum York, and the way he could handle a Springfield was a caution. Originally a conscientious objector, he had overcome his religious scruples against killing to go abroad and put a stop...