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Worker of this miracle was a little outfit named the High Standard Manufacturing Co. And the spark plug of High Standard was blue-eyed, gun-wise Carl Gustave ("Gus") Swebilius, who was born in Sweden 61 years ago, moved to the U.S. when he was 16, has been inventing and making guns ever since. Gus Swebilius worked with famed Inventor John Moses Browning during World War I, made Colt and Browning machine guns. After the Germans came out in War I with Anthony Fokker's device to fire airplane machine guns through the propeller, Gus Swebilius was the first...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Defense: A Horse Laugh for Gus | 5/26/1941 | See Source »

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