Word: breeching
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...DeLee was a pioneer in obstetrical movies. Many of his devoted students who had just come from the Chicago funeral saw the gentle, goateed, slender man with the dark, alert eyes once again at the Congress-in one of his movies. The film instructed doctors on breech presentation (buttocks or feet first instead of head). Dr. DeLee made 16 such movies, paying half the expense of all of them. He always looked for a pretty blonde mother to take the leading role...
...Near Paris, French optical firms are making tank periscopes, range finders, telescopic gun sights and other fire-control equipment for the Germans. At Levallois-Perret and La Courneuve, French armorers are making 25-and 47-mm. guns. The big Schneider plant at Le Creusot makes machine-gun barrels, jackets, breech blocks and screws. Before the surprise raid on Renault, the Germans used to brag that 80% of French production was helping the Axis war effort...
Heavy fighting was reported raging throughout the Donets Basin of the Ukraine and the Russians were hauling artillery through the new breech in the line for pulverizing assaults on German forts...
Established as G.M.'s most dollar-conscious aviation troubleshooter, Breech was a natural for the Bendix berth. Bendix Aviation manufactures a full line of delicate aviation instruments, hundreds of electrical gadgets, generators, carburetors, braking systems, etc. All these are 100% war items. But Bendix suffers from growing pains, has not expanded as fast as other munitions makers. Sales last year were $156,000,000, four times 1937, but still not big enough to supply 1942's war needs...
Like a little boy showing off his birthday train, Breech last week promised: ". . . [Bendix] production in 1942 of approximately $500,000,000 and for 1943 . . . more than...