Word: turrets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Best chance a rifleman has against tanks is to draw a bead on an open turret, fire port, pot driver or gunner. (More common will be the officially sanctioned practice of seeking the nearest ditch...
...unique feature of this new Jewett Reflector telescope is to be found in the manner in which it is housed; the entire building revolving on a special concrete base. Usually only a top of turret or dome rotates on tracks supported by a non-rotating building. The Jewett Reflector rotating building is twelve-sided and is insulated with homosote. Construction was under the direct supervision of Dr. George Z. Dimitroff, superintendent of the Oak Ridge station...
Last fortnight one of the oldest and fattest of these private handicrafters came before the public: Warner & Swasey of Cleveland, which has been dubbed "Tiffany of turret lathes," filed a registration statement with SEC, planned to offer (through Smith, Barney & Co.) 276,580 shares of common stock for sale. Now owned by a handful of Warners, Swaseys and old employes, the stock will probably be offered at less than $30 a share. Only about $1,000,000 of the $8,000,000 or so realized will go to Warner & Swasey...
...equal success with machine tools. Working with Pratt & Whitney, machine-tool builders in Hartford, Toolmaker Swasey sweated far into hot summer nights inventing the epicycloidal milling machine for producing true gear curves. This made possible today's silent automobile gears. Swasey also im proved brass-working machines and turret lathes. W. & S. now makes 60% of all U. S. turret lathes. Widely used to turn out other machine tools, the W. & S. turret lathe is at the heart of the defense program...
...warplanes demonstrated). He wound up an eight-hour day, and 100 miles of travel, at the Newport News shipbuilding yard, looked at the new battleship Indiana taking shape, pondered the 45%-finished aircraft carrier Hornet, looked at the two new ways, two new piers, the machine shop and turret shop that are now being built...