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...World War I, concerns an idealist named Harvey Bope who followed a peace-council suggestion, bought his nephews toys representing municipal buildings, Economist John Stuart Mill, other greats of civil life. A half-hour later he found that the boys had punched holes in the buildings for imaginary cannon, had dyed John Stuart Mill to make him look like a French marshal. Said saddened Harvey Bope: "The experiment has failed...
Meanwhile the Army is beginning to get 30-ton mediums. In the Armored Force, plans are already afoot to use a bigger proportion of the mediums (armed with 75 mm. cannon) and an improved M-4 model is soon to go into production (biggest improvements: a revolving turret for the 75, lower silhouette, a partly welded, partly cast armor hull). British officers now concede that today's M-3 model is the finest thing on the ground...
...tanks). It has an anti-tank battalion, will soon get an anti-aircraft battalion, and a third regiment of infantry. Its weapon strength has been multiplied beyond the fondest dreams of any gun crank. It has 3,997 machine guns (including 1,460 Tommy-guns). It has 284 cannon, ranging from blunt-snouted 155s and 105s for the artillery to slim 75s for anti-tank work. And it rides in an assortment of 2,900-odd vehicles...
From a rolling green-sodded R.A.F. airdrome, the Airacobras tucked up their tricycle undercarriages, climbed like express elevators and turned east in a sweep, searching for Germans. In the air they looked like ducks. Their long necks were stiff with a fast-firing 20-mm. cannon and two .50-caliber machine guns. Their tight-clipped wings coddled four ,303-caliber machine guns. Their pilots sat in a comforting body of armor. Up above the two-mile mark they hunted for their first live targets. But no Messerschmitts appeared. The Airacobras waited a while, then turned homeward in a grey swoop...
World War II is introducing X-rays into U.S. industry with the same momentous impact with which World War I introduced them into every hospital and doctor's office. Today X-rays are looking for flaws in parts of airplanes, tanks, warships and cannon as systematically as they are used to examine the lungs of new Army recruits...