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...fuel could be carried and the Cyclops flown to Europe. Five machine guns are carried: one out on each lower wing, clear of the propeller and thus not necessarily synchronized with it, to be operated from the cockpit, aiming straight ahead; one in a disappearing turret which drops down from the fuselage aft of the pilot, for defense below; two firing as one in another turret rising above the fuselage still further aft, for defense upwards...
...caught on a little island off Manila Bay now named Lamonja (the nun) ; the friar on an islet now called El Fraile (the friar) ; previously the sheriff had futilely searched for them in the island jungles of what is now Corregidor. Today, El Fraile is but a stone turret for U. S. guns, is known as "the stationary battleship." But experts consider Corregidor to be as impregnable as Gallipoli or Gibraltar ; its heavy armaments have longer range than the guns of any existent warship. **The Bacon Bill provides for a separate government for the southern islands (where the Moros live...
Ericsson successfully undertook to build an ironclad war vessel in 90 days to cope with the dreaded ironclad Merrimac with which the Confederates hoped to destroy the shipping of the North. In constructing the Monitor, Captain Ericsson invented the turret and its mechanism, and more than 40 patentable ideas which made this armored vessel the precursor of the modern battleship?and all these inventions he presented to the Government for its use without charge. He made for use in this man-of-war the first forged projectile, which he had demonstrated at the proving grounds would penetrate the armor...
...lease, but would at the same time look about for a safer location with no river underneath. At that time he did not know that the building was to be sold over his head. A huge sign reading "For Sale" appeared on the Bow Street side of the turret late in the afternoon, and soon attracted a crowd...
Returning from business at five-thirty yesterday afternoon, my road leading me by the Lampoon Building. I was surprised to notice a for sale sign hung before Lampy's famous turret. You can understand my surprise when I tell you that as a former editor of the Lampoon no hint or rumor had reached my ears of the impending financial disaster which has overtaken this ancient comic paper...