Word: cannoneer
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...delay. They explained they had had to prepare hundreds of fighting air bases in newly occupied territory, sending in hundreds of thousands of the Labor Corps for this purpose. They had had to move up vast quantities of flying fuel and lubricants, mountains of bombs, of machine-gun and cannon ammunition, parachutes, spare parts. They had had to build barracks, hangars, shops, anti-aircraft and other gun emplacements, including emplacements on the Channel for heavy artillery from the Maginot Line. U. S. correspondents who toured the Luftwaffe's fighting-base areas last week saw few signs of a land...
...time, part of the textile industry of the region was ruined because India, Japan and the U. S. set up their own looms. But the Midlands remained a world armory and utensil centre; cutlery, precision instruments, cannon, armor plate, ammunition and ship machinery from Sheffield; locomotives, buttons, wedding rings, machine guns, brass bedsteads, safety pins, tires, automobiles from Birmingham; everything in pottery and porcelain from the six towns comprising Stoke-on-Trent; ocean-going hulls from yards at Barrow, Birkenhead and Liverpool...
...Gathering a few thousand rebel warriors who can move through the mountains like shadows, he preyed on Italian supply trains, and isolated outposts so savagely that the Italians put a price of 100,000 talers ($50,000) on his head, sent an expedition, of 6,000 men with 24 cannon to track him. down. Once they surrounded him in the Auasc River valley about 70 miles from. Addis Ababa, but he slithered away by-night. A good guess is that Abebe Arragia has been of no small help to Britain's Royal Camel Corps (now mechanized) ia raids over...
...production scale, A. C. F. turned out its first twelve-ton machine on May 8-a snub-snouted monster armed with four .30-calibre machine guns, a .50-calibre machine gun for use against aircraft and a wicked-looking 37-rnm. (about 1½-inch) cannon. Since then the assembly line has turned them out with increasing regularity. A. C. F. drivers take the tanks for 40-m.p.h. trial runs, see that their Continental airplane-type engines function, bring them back to the shop for final adjustment down to close tolerances (1/10,000 of an inch) before marking them ready...
...some 20-odd years my generation (the cannon-fodder of 1940-41) has had preached to it day and night the brutality, the folly, the utter stupidity of war. Also presented to us-in cold, unvarnished logic-was what we got out of the last war: not the preservation of democracy in the world as we so naively hoped, but thousands of maimed bodies and saddened homes, billions in unpaid war debts...