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...from-the-tracks railroader but the next thing to it-up-from-a-telegrapher's-key-Ernest Norris got his first railroad job as assistant agent for the Chicago & North Western at Arlington Heights, Ill. In 1902 he went with the Southern as special agent & car tracer, in the days when freight car hire was a complicated matter of mileage rather than per diem rental. He has lived in the South ever since, married a Southern girl, but never acquired the accent, remained a Republican, always suffered from the heat...
...dueling at each other from behind splintered walls only a few yards apart. Chinese bombing raiders came over at 6 p.m., 6:07, 6:30, and 6:50. Japanese warships in the river, Japanese land batteries and Chinese artillery-all opened up in bedlam, streaking the evening sky with tracer bullets. Japanese aircraft, zooming up from a field the Chinese were bombing, got busy in mad efforts to save themselves and retaliate with as much damage to Chinese as possible, proceeded to fly over the neutral foreigners in the International Settlement with full cargoes of bombs, released these at speed...
...most spectacular pictures are those of the agents at machine gun practice, riddling targets with 600 rounds a minute, firing out of speeding cars, and at night lighting up the range with tracer bullets. A sedan disintegrates before your eyes under a few seconds of concentrated shooting from a squad. Emphasis, however, is placed on the scientific angles of crime detection, the long rooms of cross-indexed fingerprints and nicknames, the rows of white coated technicians and microscopes and test tubes. When it had to decide which knife had cut through a copper screen, the F.B.I. placed filings from...
...Spain was Texan Major Frederic A. Lord. He had been given last week a ship with the very latest Hispano-Suiza "moteur canon," swankest instrument of Death. This engine has a hollow propeller shaft and through it fires an oversize machine gun or undersized field piece discharging explosive, tracer, incendiary or armor-piercing shells...
...Bureau took command of another sector with the passage of an act enabling it to chase, catch and convict national bank robbers. With the passage of these laws the Federal Bureau of Investigation burst upon the national consciousness with the terrifying red glare of a ''Tommy" gun's tracer bullet...