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Near Ashland, Wis., Evelyn Kramer took a shot at a buck. It didn't move a step. Hastily she rammed in another shell, pulled the trigger, got no report. By the time she had opened the breech and extracted her lipstick case from the shell chamber, the buck had dropped - dead from the first shot...
...Journal of the Missouri State Medical Association last week, Dr. Hawker noted that surgical interference was necessary twice as frequently for the 102 heavyweights (14.7%) as for the whole series (7.2%). The ratio of the common head presentation to the uncommon breech presentation was the same for the big babies as for the whole group, but three out of four of the hindside-first heavyweight babies were lost. Altogether eight of the big babies died before or during delivery. But among their mothers there were only two cases of hemorrhage after birth, and not one mother died...
...Hercules and Du Pont contracts were only a start. Before this empty breech of U. S. defense is properly loaded, Major General Charles Macon Wesson, Army Chief of Ordnance, has many an other contract to allot. Congress has already appropriated and authorized $244,000,000, is now ready to lay out $700,000,000 more for powder plants, for great factories where smokeless and high explosive will be loaded into small-arms ammunition (pistol, rifle, machine gun), aerial bombs, artillery shells. The Army has laid out plans for building 33 plants in five U. S. areas, has specified that...
...universal defense training for the civil population. These ideas faded as his passion for mathematical precision advanced him. His checking for artillery fire last time in France was so good that sometimes his barrage shots, before Canadian advances, blasted German guns before they could get their muzzle and breech covers off. Soldiers, in Canada and elsewhere, rate him the ablest officer in the British Empire, barred from higher command because he is a colonial...
...pressure drives a jet of gas particles to the rear, and the recoil sends the rockets ahead. Rockets were used as war missiles in the early 19th Century. They had ranges up to two miles, better than the artillery of that day, were discarded only with the advent of breech-loading guns with longer ranges and rifled barrels...