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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: Davao-Kuo No More | 5/14/1945 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: More Cigarets? | 3/26/1945 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Dominion Domination | 11/20/1944 | See Source »

...lieutenant claimed that a snake had a dugout below his, that whenever he drew a bead on the serpent it fox-holed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Settled Front | 5/1/1944 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - MEDALS: Two Soldiers and a Marine | 4/24/1944 | See Source »

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