Word: springfields
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...home town of Emancipator Abraham Lincoln, Springfield, Ill., was the scene of race riots, a lynching. Du Bois lost faith in Science and Progress, dropped tiis research at Atlanta University for a new policy: Propaganda. He founded a crusading monthly, The Crisis, became an xecutive of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, struggled no less against the submissive Negro philosophy of Booker T. Washington than against white prejudices...
...from drain pipes, old wheels, set them up on fields and roads and solemnly served them while umpires stretched their imaginations. There were few .50-calibre anti-aircraft guns. The shortage was made up by lettering ".50-calibre" on a pie plate, pasting it on the side of a Springfield rifle. Except for the regular outfits, no regiments had more than a token equipment of the Army's new Garand semi-automatic rifle. Except for the regulars, no outfit was completely motor-equipped. Hundreds of trucks and sedans were rented by the day from civilians to fill...
...have ferried across the Atlantic, thanks to our friends over there, an immense mass of munitions of all kinds: cannon, rifles, machine guns, cartridges and shells; all safely landed without the loss of a gun or a round. . . ." (British authorities revealed last week that 600,000 badly needed Springfield rifles, 500 field pieces [mostly 75 mm.] and large quantities of ammunition, bought in June from the U. S. Government's surplus World War I stocks, were not only safely landed in Britain but distributed, ready for action...
...superior naval force an invader got a foothold, he would be in bombing range of U. S. fields from Newfoundland on. Chief of the Army's strong points in New England is the new Northeast Air Base now under construction at Chicopee Falls, Mass, (just north of Springfield). Farther south, on Long Island, is the Army's Mitchel Field, seat of the Air Defense Command. Through the whole northeast are scores of fields, ranging from New York City's LaGuardia and Floyd Bennett to emergency stops on the airline runs, from which Army aircraft could operate...
...month, Major General Thomas Holcomb, Commandant of the U. S. Marine Corps, unbagged a cat, which set up a muted yowl. The cat: news that the crack-shooting Marine Corps was less than satisfied with the Garand semi-automatic rifle, Army-sponsored successor to the reliable, bolt-action 1903 Springfield. With a firm grip on the cat's collar, General Holcomb said discreetly: "We are not certain yet that the Garand rifle will meet our needs. We will know in the course of the next two months whether it is a better rifle than the 1903 Springfield...