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...revolved in turret round, And warned the Southern foe That ne'er a band of selfish men Our Union could o'erthrow' No more her ironclad deck shall boast The strength to make men free;--Sixth Naval District brass have scorned The Scourge of Slavery...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Drive Starts to Raise U.S.S. Monitor | 4/14/1951 | See Source »

...still. He filled his belt with tin cans packed with fused dynamite. Then he slid through the weeds toward the tank. When it seemed to the peasants that El Campesino was done for, he threw twice: one bomb hit the tank's treads, the other its turret. That finished the tank...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMUNISTS: The Deepest Disillusionment | 1/22/1951 | See Source »

...turret man was waving his big 50-cal. machine gun at me, and I figured he was going to let me have it. I yelled, 'I'm a G.I.' He looked at me and then the other way. The tank went right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEN AT WAR: Destiny's Draftee | 1/1/1951 | See Source »

...design-award from the Army and a $9,900 award from the Navy. His first actual order was for $7,672 worth of parts for Convair's Stinson observation planes. The company kept going during World War II by making such varied products as ammo boxes, gun turret parts and tail assemblies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: Up from the Doodlebug | 10/23/1950 | See Source »

...only three years, and has thus never had a senior class, there are already a great many campus organizations. A Student Union, with officers elected from each class, acts as a student government, planning social program and aiding other groups. There is The Justice, the university newspaper, and The Turret, a literary magazine. The Newman Club, a Catholic group, is very active and will be host to all other Newman Clubs in New England this fall...

Author: By Rudolph Kasg and William M. Simmons, S | Title: Brandeis Plans Continued Expansion | 10/20/1950 | See Source »

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