Word: turreted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hunter of the East has caught The Sultan's Turret in a Noose of Light...
TIME sprinkled its salt askew. The President's vantage point was a special platform on the superstructure in front of No. 2 turret...
...would not be necessary for TIME to join the Navy in order to learn that a barbette is the stationary armored platform upon which a turret revolves, and therefore would be a most unlikely place that the President or anyone else would choose to view anything...
Japan winds up this week her Grand Naval Maneuvers and sea exercises of all sorts which have been going on since July 20. In the first phase, "fleet training.'' nobody was killed. In the second phase, "target practice," seven sailors met Death in a turret fire aboard the cruiser Ashigara. Then the fleet disappeared for five weeks of Grand Maneuvers in North Pacific waters...
Most publicized feature of General Motors' 1935 Pontiacs and Oldsmobiles are their "turret tops," which are exuberantly compared to the gun turrets of battleships. Immensely strong, sleek, graceful, they are shaped in a single mighty operation from single sheets of seamless steel. To whip them out the company's Fisher Body division has 18 giant new presses, largest of the kind ever built. Glowering edifices of gears, shafting, cable, motors and massive slides, the tallest of them tower 27 ft. above the floors, extend down another 12½ ft. into concrete pits. They deliver against the blanks...