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...after them with some new ideas. On Luzon they had discovered that the 90-mm. antiaircraft gun, with its high muzzle velocity and flat trajectory, makes an excellent cave-closing weapon. When the gun is brought into position, its accurate sights permit gunners to draw a sniper's bead on cave mouths thousands of yards away. In twelve days two guns closed over 100 caves on Balete Pass; one cave later yielded 23 Japs, dead of suffocation...
Philip Morris soon took Old Gold's place in the Big Four. By 1943, Al Lyon had boosted sales to 29 billion cigarets a year, was drawing a bead on his nearest leader, Chesterfield. Then the war began to pinch production. His galloping sales increases slowed down to a walk. Now, production is virtually frozen at 34 billion cigarets a year (six brands) compared to Liggett & Myers' (Chesterfield) 66 bil lions, R. J. Reynolds' (Camel) 77 billions and American's (Lucky Strike) 94 billions...
Canada, the cradle of professional hockey talent, once again had drawn a bead on the National Hockey League crown. With the new season barely two weeks old, last year's Runner-Up Toronto Maple Leafs and Champion Montreal Canadiens were leading the league. Toronto was sitting pretty with six straight wins, one loss; Montreal had won four, lost...
...lieutenant claimed that a snake had a dugout below his, that whenever he drew a bead on the serpent it fox-holed...
Farmer. Second Lieut. Ernest Childers, aged 26, of Broken Arrow, Okla., three-quarters Creek Indian, one-quarter Irish, was a big, silent farm hand and mechanic. He learned to walk at five months, to ride a pony at six years, could draw an accurate bead on a tomato can at 50 yards when he was seven. Last September after the Salerno landing his battalion was pinned down by machine-gun and mortar fire. Disregarding a broken instep, the big Indian advanced alone, killed two Germans who fired at him from a nearby house. Then he slipped behind a machine...