Word: steele
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Increased lethal effect is obtained by softening the nose of the bullet to make it spread at impact. Steel jacketed bullets shoot straightest and farthest but bore clean holes instead of smashing a wide wound. Various powder loads have various killing power, but following is a rough table of the calibres and types of bullets generally recommended for various types of killing by rifle...
Woodchucks, muskrats, beavers, dogs, etc. .25 Steel jacketed (to avoid marring...
Humans, deer, etc. .30 to .32 Optional; steel jacket considered more "sporting...
Driving sharply eastward over the North Atlantic last week but kept apart by the watery curve of the days were two great U. S. steelmakers. The first was James Augustine Farrell, 65, since 1911 president of the U. S. Steel Corp. The second was Charles Michael Schwab, 66, the first (1901-04) president of the U. S. Steel, now chairman of Bethlehem Steel.* Mr. Schwab was going to England to receive the Bessemer Medal; Mr. Farrell was going to Italy for health & pleasure. He had worked 18 years without surcease and now he needed recuperation...
...William Ellis Corey, 62, the intervening (1903-11) U. S. Steel president, heads no concern; directs several of the most potent of their kind-American Banknote, Baldwin Locomotive, Bethlehem Steel, International Nickel, Mack Trucks, Montana Power. . . . When in the U. S. he lives on Fifth Avenue, close to Manhattan's Metropolitan Art Museum...