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...that a bullet could be dropped right through the barrel without sticking. Add to this the fact that they were furnished with a quite hard bullet, sharp on the point, it is easy to see why they pierced flesh without delivering the shock they could have given if made blunt or square-shouldered. The English furnished their .455-caliber with a hollow cup blunt end, and when one of these struck it was curtains for the victim...
...probably sunk or damaged at least 14 enemy submarines." In the Pacific, he added, "our naval forces have already effectively dealt with several Japanese submarines." Off the Pacific Coast, 200 miles north of San Francisco, a submarine sank the tanker Emidio by gunfire and torpedo a few miles off Blunt's Reef, then sank three lifeboats as the crew fled. The Navy said 22 crew members were missing. Farther south the tanker Agwiworld, 20 miles off Santa Cruz, was attacked by a submarine which appeared 500 yards away...
Veto for Baruch. Tennessee's handsome young Albert A. Gore presented his own blunt plan for price control: an overall bill to freeze all prices, including farm commodities and wages. The Gore bill was taken directly from the ideas of Elder Statesman Bernard Baruch, head of the World War I Industries Board, and had Baruch's official blessing. The House rejected it by a vote...
Another rugged individualist has enlisted in the U.S. defense program-which needs more of them. Frank Pembroke ("Huck") Huckins is a blunt Boston Yankee with confidence to burn. Last year he told the Navy he could make a motor torpedo boat which wouldn't pound the teeth out of its crew. To most old salts, this sounded fantastic. But since Huckins was willing to spend his own money on the boat-if the Navy would just supply the engines-the Navy turned him loose...
...glib, soft-spoken naval diplomat. He has a salty tongue and a predilection for blunt truths. In periodic get-togethers with Lieut. General Douglas MacArthur,* who commands the U.S. and native troops in the Philippines, and with Dutch and British officers, he usually says little. He prefers action. Tommy Hart will be ready to shoot...