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Bartlett, N. H., 10 inches, skiing fair; Canaan, N. H., no snow, no skiing; Cannon Mountain, Franconia, N. H., 18 inches, fair to poor; Dartmouth region, 3 inches, skiing poor; Intervale, N. H., 3 inches, skiing poor; Jackson, N. H., 8 inches, skiing fair; Laconia, N. H., no snow, no skiing...
...Whirling Cannon. Induction heating contributes to one of the most ingenious practices in modern arsenals-the centrifugal casting of gun barrels. Steel is induction-melted, then poured into a horizontally rotating mold which continues to spin until the casting hardens. Thus formed is a hollow, easy-to-bore barrel instead of the solid ingot from which cannon were formerly forged and drilled. Slag (formed by the oxidation of the molten metal) is forced to the inner surface of the casting, where it can easily be tooled away...
...learned something. He went back to bombing. Wake was hit by 27 planes, again by 32, by 30, by 41. He came again & again. With his patched-up ships, Paul Putnam's men went up to meet him, while the men on the ground slammed away with cannon and machine...
...middle-sized blimps, off Lakehurst, N.J., looked as deceptively innocent as exploding cigars. They made up the first lighter-than-air squadron the Navy has sent aloft in World War II. Each of them was manned by a crew of eight and carried machine guns, light cannon, bombs, depth charges. Their job: to hunt enemy submarines and mines in U.S. coastal waters...
There may be other obstacles of the same kind that slowed production last year. Glenn Martin once had scores of B-26 bombers waiting on the field for propellers; Bell Aircraft waited weeks for Allison engines and 37-mm. aerial cannon; Lockheed for flight instruments. Such disbalances are mostly defects of organization, not materials, and are cured by experience. Output of air-cooled radial engines is now well ahead of schedule, and liquid-cooled production is stepping up fast...