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...Adolf Hitler, due back in Bucharest this week for a final showdown on Rumanian oil, this step was a daring one indeed. And Rumania backed it up by ordering to their regiments at once 200,000 reservists who had been called for March 1. Troops, ammunition, tanks, trucks and cannon rolled toward Rumania's northern frontiers in greater volume than ever and the Rumanian man power now mobilized...
...Shut them up!" Members of the Congress, taking parliamentary procedure into their own hands, gave Mr. Tropea the bum's rush. Peter Tropea put up a fight, managed to break free and throw his book at an A. Y. C. officer before being ejected. The book was Cannon's Procedure in the House of Representatives...
When the Russians first tried to walk into Finland, across the Karelian Isthmus and around the shores of Lake Laatokka, the Finns described the troops they slaughtered as cannon fodder. When Russia's thrusts across Finland's narrow waist bogged down, then turned into the rout of Suomussalmi, the Finns contemptuously pointed out that the drives had been haphazardly planned, poorly supplied. But when, last fortnight, Russia began pounding away on all fronts, there was every indication that this mightiest offensive of the war had been carefully planned, was well supplied, and employed seasoned Red Army troops...
...cylinder Allison (made by General Motors) drives the three-bladed prop through a shaft. Best thing about this is that it makes Airacobra's air-splitting nose thin and wartless, still leaves room up front for Airacobra's most deadly fang: a 37-millimeter (1½ |inch) cannon which fires through the propeller hub. Alongside its cannon, biggest carried by any single-engined pursuit ship, are two .30-calibre and two .50-calibre (½inch) machine guns...
...reviewing Quennell's "Caroline of England," page 64, Jan. 15 issue, you mention "Puckle's Machine Gun, designed to discharge round and square cannon balls and bullets...