Word: springfields
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...century (TIME, April 4, 1955), got a spectacular airing in Massachusetts last week. In Boston, the governor's executive council of nine (lawyers and laymen, no judges) ended, with a dramatic reversal, a long debate with its collective conscience over the fate of Kenneth Chapin, 20, of Springfield, who two years ago used a bayonet to stab to death a 14-year-old baby sitter and her four-year-old charge.* What convinced the council was expert and dramatic psychiatric testimony...
Died. Benjamin Platt Thomas, 54, Lincoln scholar, whose Abraham Lincoln (1952) was generally considered the best modern one-volume biography of the President; by his own hand (revolver) during a period of depression caused by throat cancer; in Springfield...
...Belgium's famed Fabrique Nationale d'Armes de Guerre also brought out a new automatic. Dubbed the F.N., it was quickly adopted as the standard rifle of such NATO partners as Britain, France, Canada and Belgium. Rather than fall completely out of step, the Army ordered the Springfield T 44 and the Belgian F.N. tested competitively, wound up deciding the T 44 was still the rifle it wanted. From the Army's research and development staff came a recommendation that the T 44 be manufactured (at $95 apiece) in sufficient quantity to replace the M 1 Garand...
...bigger, more powerful infantry weapon is known as the Armalite (for "light armament"). Firing a .308-cal. round, it has the hitting power and range of the Springfield T 44 and the Belgian F.N. but weighs only 6.8 pounds because it is made of lightweight aluminum alloy and plastics, is so soundly constructed that it sacrifices neither accuracy nor sturdiness. Unlike almost any other rifle, the fully automatic Armalite can be manufactured on an assembly-line basis; it discards the traditional drilled steel barrel for a barrel liner made of stainless steel tubing, and swaged, i.e., forced by machine, into...
...Army has begun vigorous tests of the Armalite at Springfield and its Aberdeen Proving Ground. Keeping an eye on the tests. Army Chief of Staff Maxwell Taylor said he would delay a decision on pushing the Springfield...