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- From: ldoering@engin.umich.edu (Laurence Doering)
- Subject: Re: Xmas report
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- Date: Fri, 08 Jan 93 19:23:15 EST
- Organization: Zantop World Airways
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- In article <1ihjlfINN48g@rave.larc.nasa.gov> kludge@grissom.larc.nasa.gov (Scott Dorsey) writes:
- >It is good to know that the Underwood Typewriter Company also made M-1
- >rifles, because they manufactured the primary weapon of the cold war.
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- Actually, just about everybody made M-1 carbines during the war, it seems.
- The ones collectors really go gaga over were made by Rock-Ola, who apparently
- suspended manufacture of jukeboxes during the war, but not for very long,
- so their production run of M-1s was rather small.
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- ljd
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