10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «BURP GUN»
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burp gun in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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Although the Burp Gun ads did not seem to have an immediate impact on sales,
approximately six weeks after they first appeared, the Mattel staff arrived at work
on the Monday morning after Thanksgiving to find the telephones ringing off the ...
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Toys and American Culture: An Encyclopedia
In 1955, Mattel began advertising an item called the Burp Gun on the Mickey
Mouse Club television show. This realistic imitation of a World War II machine
gun created such demand, that even President Dwight Eisenhower had difficulty
...
Finally, I discerned that Burp Gun was shooting from a tree on the hill and to my
left (or right as I had now turned to face downhill toward the threat). He was
spraying the top of the hill and everywhere he could see. Apparently, Sailor and I
were ...
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Disneyland and Culture: Essays on the Parks and Their Influence
Given the show's ability to attract youth, it had no difficulty attracting advertisers,
especially Mattel, whose Burp Gun and Barbie dolls became among the first toy
phenomena of the television era. Cy Schneider, who worked for Mattel, describes
...
Kathy Merlock Jackson, Mark I. West, 2010
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Blue Skies and Thunder: Farm Boy, Pilot, Inventor, TSA ...
There were “Screaming Meemies,” “Bouncing Betties,” and the “burp gun.”
Screaming Meemies ran chills up our spines. They were six—barreled guns with
a high pitch that was intended to be psychologically terrifying. We'd shudder as
their ...
Virgil Westdale, Westdale Virgil Westdale, Stephanie A. Gerdes, 2009
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Filthy Thirteen: From the Dustbowl to Hitler's Eagle's ...
opened up on me with a burp gun. There was a little defilade area and I jumped
into it. I was not twenty yards from that guy with the burp gun. I could feel those
bullets impacting into my musset bag but they did not touch me. It was a hell of a
...
Richard Killblane, Jake McNiece, 2005
... brown checkered grips, magazine pops up when slider is pulled back EX $85
NM $170 MIP $310 Burp Gun, 1960s, Marx, 20" batteryoperated, green and black
plastic EX $20 NM $35 MIP $75 Desert Patrol Machine Pistol, Marx, plastic, 11" ...
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The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional ...
88, 2001 burp gun noun a submachine gun us • In general character, this one
developed like the second: the same whistles and roll calling to start with, then
heavy and inaccurate fire, involving several machine guns and burp guns which
...
Eric Partridge, Tom Dalzell, Terry Victor, 2006
One, apparently in charge, carried only a pistol strapped around his waist but two
others held rifles in their hands and the third sported a Chinese Burp gun; an
automatic submachine gun. “Who are you and what are you doing here,” cried
the ...
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Jody: Not Just Another War Story
Jody grabbed the barrel of the burp gun by the heat shield with his left hand and
pushed it aside so that he was out of the line of fire. The burp gun went off; Jody
stuck his .45 over the edge and fired where he thought the enemy soldier would ...
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «BURP GUN»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
burp gun is used in the context of the following news items.
Excerpt From Master Class For Investors By Martin Sosnoff
... then inflating the balloon with a portable pump slung on my shoulder like a burp gun. Middle-aged veterans of World War I worked the crowd, ... «ValueWalk, Jun 15»
Gun, but not forgotten
the company was grossing over $5 million a year when it diversified into cap guns, specifically a fully-automatic weapon called Burp Gun which ... «Weld for Birmingham, Mar 15»
A Gun for All Wars?
Their accurate M1 rifles and carbines could not put out nearly as much firepower as the burp gun — a sub-machine gun — carried by many ... «Discover Magazine, Jan 15»
Local man was victim of war crime
... heads and one German corporal got out of a halftrack and walked up to the front of the rank and just raised his burp gun and shot two men at ... «Shelbyville Times-Gazette, Dec 14»
Veterans share their stories with Barlow students
“It sounded just like the Nazi burp gun. If this was coming at you, you'd better duck. You have no time to dig a foxhole. Things like this happens ... «The Redding Pilot, Nov 14»
Cape Breton Korean War vets give to charity as final act of local …
He was riddled across (the chest) with a burp gun.” It was an emotional reunion when Rose got to visit Lawson's grave for the first time last year. «Cape Breton Post, Oct 14»
The Chosin Reservoir Interviews
“One had a machine gun, burp gun, one had ammunition, one carried grenades, and one carried a stick,” Licker said. “If the front guy died the ... «CollegeNews, Jun 14»
Former POW recounts experience as prisoner during World War II …
In Bleialf, men from Howard's unit were pinned down by a heavy artillery German machine gun commonly referred to as a “burp gun. «Valley News, May 14»
Hanging with Brett Whiteley: a boyhood idyll
... Vietcong sprang from behind an oil drum road block and sprayed them with fire from an automatic burp gun and an AK47. Two of the journos ... «The Australian Financial Review, May 14»
Arctic Methane Emissions 'Certain to Trigger Warming'
... atmosphere & water does act as as a positive feedback itself & thus in that regard contributor to the next chain reaction clathrate burp gun that ... «Climate Central, May 14»
