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...Albert Speer has called upon German manufacturers for more & more steel to fill the Russian maw. If the Allies could find any encouragement in Mot pulk, it was the indication that Hitler's generals had committed his overstrained stockpiles and factories to a new and endless race for armament...
...ceilings after several days of bad weather, the R.A.F. thundered out across Germany with close to 300 planes. The target was industrial Mannheim (pop. 275,000), railroad-veined center on the upper Rhine. The R.A.F. was after the Daimler-Benz airplane-engine (for Messerschmitts, Dorniers, etc.) works, the Lanz armament plant, the vast Badische chemical works nearby...
...Every Hedgerow. Not likely to be confused with the Grenadier Guards, on their regular Sunday drill the Home Guards nevertheless looked like able fighting men. A two-year scrounge for armament had equipped them all with firearms, even if some were ancient fowling pieces. Most of them had uniforms and steel helmets; in the most dangerous invasion zones they had Bofors guns, machine guns, light mobile Smith guns and a thing called the Blacker Bombard, which lobs 14-or 20-pound high explosive shells at moving targets (the Home Guard practiced with old baby carriages) with startling accuracy...
...four New Jersey performances of You Can Defend America-two in Newark, one each in Trenton and Kearny. The long and notable list of sponsors was headed by Governor & Mrs. Charles Edison. Dr. Buchman and the cast were busy as beavers between shows, explaining the principles of Moral Re-Armament to prospects and trying for converts...
Unpublished as yet in the U.S. was the full armament of the Jap's Navy Zero, which carries at least two 20-mm. cannon and light machine guns...