Word: bazooka
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...classes of 200 (25% is average mortality among O.C.s), students start off with six weeks' intensive study of the infantryman's 13 weapons, from Garand to bazooka. They learn what each can and cannot do; sometimes they aim a weapon two hours before firing. They also learn to live harder and in more orderly fashion than they knew even in the Army's tough school of the enlisted soldier...
...will be replaced as the capacity to make it is freed from more pressing work; 2) worn-out tools will boom the replacement business; 3) new weapons, new military strategy will call for new tools (e.g., a tank-making tool is no good if you want to make a "bazooka...
...Army's newest sensation, the one-man rocket gun-"bazooka"-that can stop a tank (TIME, April 5) may cause a further revision of artillery production...
...specialties, the Mozart clarinet concerto. From California, Conductor Iturbi telephoned Philadelphia: "[Goodman] is a jazz-band leader. It would be beneath my dignity to conduct for him." (Iturbi has accepted dignified fees for appearing with Bing Crosby on the radio, playing piano accompaniment for Bob Burns' bazooka.) Drawled Benny Goodman: "Well, let's just get a better conductor." He soon got one: Edwin McArthur...
HOLLYWOOD--Bob Burns, bazooka-tooting movie and radio hillbilly, was sued for $70,000 damages today by Daniel Hoge, who claimed false imprisonment...