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Detroit has other enormous rooms, and out of them armies will roll and fleets will fly. Endlessly the lines will send tanks, jeeps, machine guns, cannon, air torpedoes, armored cars. Ford's River Rouge plant, where Ford steamships dump coal and iron ore and limestone to be magicked into steel and glass and machinery, has turned its two square miles of self-contained industrial empire to the tools...
Professors Reginald A. Daly, Edward K. Rand, Walter B. Cannon, Eldon R. James, Joseph Warren, and Edward S. Thurston have been appointed to the position of Professor Emeritus, the University announced Sunday. The appointments become effective September...
Professor Cannon, born in Wisconsin in 1871, received his degree here in 1896. A physiologist since 1900 he was made George Higginson Professor of Physiology in 1906, and served as Acting Dean of the Medical School...
...slaughtered harmless elderly Hindus of both sexes by the score (and were sometimes slaughtered themselves by the sepoys-see cut, p. 28). They seized Moslems, whose religion forbids contact with pork, and sewed them into pig skins before killing them. They tied some rebellious sepoys to the muzzles of cannon, and then fired the cannon. As late as 1919, at Amritsar, British General Reginald Edward Harry Dyer ordered his troops to disperse a prohibited meeting of unarmed Indians by firing into the crowd; the volley killed...
Spinning Guns. "The U.S. today leads the world in the science of gun-making," says Brigadier General Holland W. Case, Commandant of the Watertown (Mass.) Arsenal, and he gives most of the credit to replacement since 1918 of forging by centrifugal steel casting.* Steel for cannon is poured into horizontal molds which whirl rapidly until the metal hardens. Impurities are forced to the hollow center of the barrel, where they are easily bored away, and blowholes and shrinkages are avoided...