Word: weaponeers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...struck the first U.S. blow against Germany (Minister to Bulgaria George Howard Earle, whose weapon was a bottle in the face of a German) arrived in Istanbul last week, en route home with his staff...
...defection of the .38-caliber pistol in the Philippines as a defense weapon was as much the Government's fault as anyone's. They were ordered from the Colt company with a barrel so overbored that a bullet could be dropped right through the barrel without sticking. Add to this the fact that they were furnished with a quite hard bullet, sharp on the point, it is easy to see why they pierced flesh without delivering the shock they could have given if made blunt or square-shouldered. The English furnished their .455-caliber with a hollow...
Admiral Yamamoto must have been trying a little Japanese wool-pulling when he surprised everyone at the London Naval Conference by defining the torpedo as a "defensive weapon." "Doesn't it depend, sir," asked a U.S. naval technician, "at which...
...monopoly and conspiracy in restraint of trade (TIME, Nov. 3), were sentenced last week by a Federal judge in Lexington, Ky. Nobody will go to jail. But the judge's decision put a large segment of U.S. business on notice: competitors who do not use price as a weapon may be "conspiring" to fix prices even if they never actually meet to do so. To a great many lawyers, this is something new under the Sherman Act. One defense counsel called it the "Thurman...
...other (though no one will attend a market unless the other two are there). In some cases, they walk ahead of the auctioneer, are awarded their chosen baskets at pre-established prices as soon as their hands are laid upon them. The lightning speed of the auctions is another weapon: farmers are just as bemused by the auctioneer's chant as are radio listeners when Speed Riggs gives out on The Hit Parade. The manufacturers' control of these markets, the trustbusters argued, was made still more effective by their ability to stay away at any time, since they...