Word: anti-tank
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...Guns of all kinds promised, 223; sent, 114. Shells promised, 297,200; sent, 185,000. Vickers guns promised, 100; all sent. Marine mines promised, 500; sent, 400. Hand grenades promised, 50.000; all sent. Aircraft bombs promised, 20,500; sent, 15,700. Signal equipment promised, 1,300; sent, 800. Anti-tank rifles promised, 200; all sent. Respirators promised, 60,000; all sent. Greatcoats promised, 100,000; all sent. Battle dress promised, 100,000; all sent. Anti-tank mines promised, 20,000; sent, 10,000. Ambulances promised, 48; all sent...
...afternoon it was announced that the Allies had offered Finland direct military intervention-providing Finland asked for it. The French Government added up all war supplies sent to Finland: 405 airplanes (67 of them bombers) ; 916 pieces of artillery and 2,300,000 shells; 5,224 machine guns, 150 anti-tank guns, 450 grenades, 1,050 sea mines, 10,000 land mines, 60,000,000 infantry cartridges. This was not a bad effort for countries themselves at war, said a French spokesman...
...their prospective "Army in Being" must fill huge holes in its supplies if it is to be ready to fight on call. As recently as 1938, Chief of Staff Malin Craig figured that $142,000,000 should be enough to plug the biggest gaps (modern field artillery, anti-aircraft and anti-tank guns, rapid-fire rifles, tanks, gas masks, ammunition). For such ordnance the Army last year got almost as much as Malin Craig had begged, in last week's estimates was allotted $100,266,413 more, was still far from surfeited. Only for Air Corps expansion...
...Slowly the snow-clogged tanks advanced to the foot of the hill, with only three-fourths of the infantrymen left. A Finnish mortar or anti-tank shell burst twenty yards from the first tank and the Russian soldiers dropped to the ground. The tank seemed disabled, for it stopped. The three other tanks went on a few more yards to some granite boulders at the foot of the hill, then turned and plunged at full speed back to the woods for more...
Balked in this movement, the Russians tried again to get around the north shore of Lake Laatokka between Loimola and the lake. After heavy shelling, their armored cars, tanks and infantry went into action, only to be beaten back by the Finns' own anti-tank guns...